Publisher's Synopsis
"Welcome to the afterlife in Jeff Chon's America: disaffected Goth teens sneer their way through a Christian Fundamentalist rally where a mound of "Satanic" LPs are set ablaze in response to the hospitalization of one of their classmates; a young teacher returns to his hometown to reckon with the suicide of a friend who was recently exposed as a necrophiliac; and a local comic store sponsers a "Draw the Prophet Muhammed" contest, aided and abetted by a right-wing shock jock and a local biker gang. With warmth and a touch of the sardonic, the stories in This is the Afterlife look deeply into the recursive nature of fate: how the end of one action's lifespan leads to the birth of another, and how the most unexpeted and bizarre twists in our lives are inevitable, even when they're undeserved." -- Page 4. of cover.
