This Is Only a Test

The Truman Capote Prize-winning author “provides an offbeat look at the fragility of human life and our resilience when faced with death” ( Kirkus ). On April 27, 2011, just days after learning of their pregnancy, B. J. Hollars, his wife, and their future son endured the onslaught of an EF-4 tornado. There, while huddled in a bathtub in their Alabama home, mortality flashed before their eyes. With the last of his computer battery, Hollars began recounting the experience, and would continue to do