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May 20, 2013
"In "the city," the afterlife inhabited by the recently dead (they remain there only as long as they are remembered by someone still alive), the transient population undergoes rapid change as a deadly virus decimates the living. Soon the city is nearly empty and only a handful remain - the parents, friends, acquaintances and former lovers of a woman named Laura, stranded in an Antarctic research station. In chapters alternating between Laura, struggling for survival, and those in the city as they attempt to build new lives, Kevin Brockmeier reflects on human relationships in a "beautiful, delicate manner" (Publishers Weekly)." May 2013 Fiction A to Z newsletter http://www.nextreads.com/Display2.aspx?SID=5acc8fc1-4e91-4ebe-906d-f8fc5e82a8e0&N=635711