The Afterlife

From "a fiercely intelligent writer" ( The New York Times ), a wry, poignant story of the difficult love between a mother and a son In the winter of 2000, shortly after his mother's death from cancer and malnourishment, Donald Antrim, author of the absurdist, visionary masterworks Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World , The Hundred Brothers, and The Verificationist , began writing about his family. In pieces that appeared in The New Yorker and were anthologized in Best American Essays , Antrim e