Catherine C. (c-squared) reviewed on 8/29/2011 + 181 more book reviews

What happens when we die? Everyone has a theory and this is Brockmeier's. As long as someone on earth remembers a deceased person, they live in another world, a city without any discernible end. Where they go when the last person who knew them dies...that's apparently another story.

That's one layer of the story.

The other layer takes place in the world of the living. Sometime in the future, virologists create a virus that kills everyone.

This is an end-of-the-world story times two, written with wit and plenty of quirks.

I enjoyed piecing together the connections between the last person on earth and those who she remembers.

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