Bad Sex in the Afterlife : A Novel

A manic exploration of death and the absurdity of life.

Jerry is stuck on the toilet at 9 a.m., procrastinating on a low-rent freelance gig about Senator Lindsey Graham, when he finds himself face-to-face with an impossible visitor: his mother, whos dead, and has been for quite some time. She claims his father is missing in the Afterlifeand needs her only son to help find him.

In Deadville, Jerry finds himself in a chaotic bureaucratic afterlife packed with dead celebritiesfrom Benjamin Franklin to Amy Winehouseall with unresolved grudges. He careens through misadventures with Lou Reed (and Lous sock puppet named Sugar), as his mother bullies, shames, and emotionally steamrolls him at every turn. But his father isnt really missing, hes thrivingreinvented as a delusional Reichsfhrer running a Nazi-infested pool hall.

The manic ride through the Afterlife leaves Jerry pulverized, love-struck, and addicted to death. Part metaphysical satire, part post-life fever dream, Bad Sex in the Afterlife reads like a deranged cousin of Lincoln in the Bardoif Thomas Pynchon and William S. Burroughs co-wrote a cursed family memoir at gunpoint.