In addition to his most recent work, A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip, KEVIN BROCKMEIER is the author of the novels The Illumination, The Brief History of the Dead, and The Truth About Celia the story collections Things That Fall from the Sky and The View from the Seventh Layer and the children’s novels City of Names and Grooves: A Kind of Mystery. His work has been translated into seventeen languages. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Kevin Brockmeier alternates these two storylines to create a lyrical and haunting story about love, loss and the power of memory. With little choice, Laura sets out across the ice to look for help, but time is running out. Meanwhile, Laura Byrd is trapped in an Antarctic research station, her supplies are running low, her radio finds only static, and the power is failing. Others, like Coleman Kinzler, believe it is the beginning of the end. Some of the holdouts, like Luka Sims, who produces the City’s only newspaper, are wondering what exactly is going on.
But the City is shrinking, and the residents clearing out. They will reside in this afterlife until they are completely forgotten. The City is inhabited by those who have departed Earth but are still remembered by the living. From Kevin Brockmeier, one of this generation's most inventive young writers, comes a striking new novel about death, life, and the mysterious place in between.
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