Discuss two spooky experimental books @ Politan Row

For October, we chose two short books for a spooky experimental double-feature! (Yes, of course you can still come if you only have time for one).

We will be reading both A Short Stay In Hell by Steven L. Peck and It Lasts Forever and Then Its Over by Anne de Marcken!

Can't wait to discuss these surreal explorations of the horror of life after death with everyone!

Book descriptions:

A Short Stay In Hell
As a faithful Mormon, Soren Johansson has always believed he’ll be reunited with his loved ones after death in an eternal hereafter. Then, he dies. Soren wakes to find himself cast by a God he has never heard of into a Hell whose dimensions he can barely grasp: a vast library he can only escape from by finding the book that contains the story of his life.

It Lasts Forever and Then Its Over
The heroine of the spare and haunting It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over is voraciously alive in the afterlife. Adrift yet keenly aware, she notes every bizarre detail of her new reality. And even if she has forgotten her name and much of what connects her to her humanity, she remembers with an implacable and nearly unbearable longing the place where she knew herself and was known―where she loved and was loved. Traveling across the landscapes of time and of space, heading always west, and carrying a dead but laconically opinionated crow in her chest, our undead narrator encounters and loses parts of her body and her self in one terrifying, hilarious, and heartbreaking situation after another.