SUM FORTY TALES FROM THE AFTERLIFES

In the afterlife you may find that God is the size of a microbe and unaware of y
our existence. Or you may find the afterlife contains only those people whom you
remember. In some afterlives you are split into all your different ages, in som
e you are recreated based on your credit card records, and in others you are for
ced to live with annoying versions of yourself that represent what you could hav
e been.



In these wonderfully imagined tales - at once funny, wistful and unse
ttling - Eagleman kicks over the chessboard of traditional notions and offers us
a dazzling lens through which to see ourselves here and now. His stories are ro
oted in science and romance and awe at our mysterious existence: a mixture of ho
pe, love and death that cuts through human nature at innovative angles.