{"product_id":"the-afterlives","title":"Afterlives","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Ridiculously good' (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e) author Thomas Pierce's debut novel is a brilliantly dazzling and poignant love story that answers the question: What happens after we die? (Lots of stuff, it turns out.)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWill we meet again? I believe we will, but as for proof I can only offer my story, nothing more.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJim Byrd died. Technically. For a few minutes. The diagnosis: heart attack at age thirty. Revived with no memory of any tunnels, lights or angels, Jim wonders what - if anything - awaits us on the other side. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThen a ghost shows up. Maybe. Jim and his new wife, Annie, find themselves tangling with holograms, psychics, messages from the beyond and a machine that connects the living and the dead. As Jim and Annie journey through history and fumble through faith, they confront the spectre of loss that looms for anyone who dares to fall in love. Funny, fiercely original and gracefully moving, \u003ci\u003eThe Afterlives\u003c\/i\u003e will haunt you. In a good way.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eThe Afterlives\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A bracingly intelligent, beautifully rendered meditation on ghosts, technology, marriage, and the afterlife. This is a remarkable novel' \u003cb\u003eEmily St. John Mandel\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Inventive, romantic, and unsettling, \u003ci\u003eThe Afterlives\u003c\/i\u003e is a story of two people who take extraordinary measures to answer the Big Questions: What is the soul? Do we ever really die? Flabbergastingly original and sublimely satisfying' \u003cb\u003eAmity Gaige\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32093649895507,"sku":"","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780349134581.jpg?v=1764474336","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/the-afterlives","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}