"'What else is a beginning but the end of something else?'"
what drew me to this book initially was the title. ‘it lasts forever and then it’s over’ - i mean, how brilliant is that? all encompassing of life, of the various phases we live through, of the transitional stages, and of how we’re always moving forward wanting to get to the next stage, the next chapter, that we don’t realise the current one has ended and we’ll never get it back. this is sort of what happens in the book: our unnamed protagonist is a zombie who has lost her arm and has stuffed a dead crow into her chest. she does not need to eat or drink or sleep or even breathe, she technically isn’t alive, but she is. the world is made up of a sparse population of people and zombies, and we don’t know why because she doesn’t know why - she can’t remember anything. but she is searching for something, and that something is ‘you’: a lover, a friend, a child. this book takes us through the empty landscape of the world as the MC travels to the sea because she wants to lay her eyes upon it and there’s not much else to do. and she’s constantly moving forwards and she’s trying to grieve her life as a human but she can’t because she can’t remember anything about it, not even her name. this book is about humanity and relationships and life, and most importantly the chapters and phases we go through, and the push and pull of the past and future, but the stillness of the present. it’s so beautiful and so intriguing, i’ve never related to a zombie more. if you get the chance, i would recommend picking this book up and reading it in a quiet place where you can sit and be alone to digest it all 🤍
what drew me to this book initially was the title. ‘it lasts forever and then it’s over’ - i mean, how brilliant is that? all encompassing of life, of the various phases we live through, of the transitional stages, and of how we’re always moving forward wanting to get to the next stage, the next chapter, that we don’t realise the current one has ended and we’ll never get it back. this is sort of what happens in the book: our unnamed protagonist is a zombie who has lost her arm and has stuffed a dead crow into her chest. she does not need to eat or drink or sleep or even breathe, she technically isn’t alive, but she is. the world is made up of a sparse population of people and zombies, and we don’t know why because she doesn’t know why - she can’t remember anything. but she is searching for something, and that something is ‘you’: a lover, a friend, a child. this book takes us through the empty landscape of the world as the MC travels to the sea because she wants to lay her eyes upon it and there’s not much else to do. and she’s constantly moving forwards and she’s trying to grieve her life as a human but she can’t because she can’t remember anything about it, not even her name. this book is about humanity and relationships and life, and most importantly the chapters and phases we go through, and the push and pull of the past and future, but the stillness of the present. it’s so beautiful and so intriguing, i’ve never related to a zombie more. if you get the chance, i would recommend picking this book up and reading it in a quiet place where you can sit and be alone to digest it all 🤍
what drew me to this book initially was the title. ‘it lasts forever and then it’s over’ - i mean, how brilliant is that? all encompassing of life, of the various phases we live through, of the transitional stages, and of how we’re always moving forward wanting to get to the next stage, the next chapter, that we don’t realise the current one has ended and we’ll never get it back. this is sort of what happens in the book: our unnamed protagonist is a zombie who has lost her arm and has stuffed a dead crow into her chest. she does not need to eat or drink or sleep or even breathe, she technically isn’t alive, but she is. the world is made up of a sparse population of people and zombies, and we don’t know why because she doesn’t know why - she can’t remember anything. but she is searching for something, and that something is ‘you’: a lover, a friend, a child. this book takes us through the empty landscape of the world as the MC travels to the sea because she wants to lay her eyes upon it and there’s not much else to do. and she’s constantly moving forwards and she’s trying to grieve her life as a human but she can’t because she can’t remember anything about it, not even her name. this book is about humanity and relationships and life, and most importantly the chapters and phases we go through, and the push and pull of the past and future, but the stillness of the present. it’s so beautiful and so intriguing, i’ve never related to a zombie more. if you get the chance, i would recommend picking this book up and reading it in a quiet place where you can sit and be alone to digest it all 🤍
what drew me to this book initially was the title. ‘it lasts forever and then it’s over’ - i mean, how brilliant is that? all encompassing of life, of the various phases we live through, of the transitional stages, and of how we’re always moving forward wanting to get to the next stage, the next chapter, that we don’t realise the current one has ended and we’ll never get it back. this is sort of what happens in the book: our unnamed protagonist is a zombie who has lost her arm and has stuffed a dead crow into her chest. she does not need to eat or drink or sleep or even breathe, she technically isn’t alive, but she is. the world is made up of a sparse population of people and zombies, and we don’t know why because she doesn’t know why - she can’t remember anything. but she is searching for something, and that something is ‘you’: a lover, a friend, a child. this book takes us through the empty landscape of the world as the MC travels to the sea because she wants to lay her eyes upon it and there’s not much else to do. and she’s constantly moving forwards and she’s trying to grieve her life as a human but she can’t because she can’t remember anything about it, not even her name. this book is about humanity and relationships and life, and most importantly the chapters and phases we go through, and the push and pull of the past and future, but the stillness of the present. it’s so beautiful and so intriguing, i’ve never related to a zombie more. if you get the chance, i would recommend picking this book up and reading it in a quiet place where you can sit and be alone to digest it all 🤍
what drew me to this book initially was the title. ‘it lasts forever and then it’s over’ - i mean, how brilliant is that? all encompassing of life, of the various phases we live through, of the transitional stages, and of how we’re always moving forward wanting to get to the next stage, the next chapter, that we don’t realise the current one has ended and we’ll never get it back. this is sort of what happens in the book: our unnamed protagonist is a zombie who has lost her arm and has stuffed a dead crow into her chest. she does not need to eat or drink or sleep or even breathe, she technically isn’t alive, but she is. the world is made up of a sparse population of people and zombies, and we don’t know why because she doesn’t know why - she can’t remember anything. but she is searching for something, and that something is ‘you’: a lover, a friend, a child. this book takes us through the empty landscape of the world as the MC travels to the sea because she wants to lay her eyes upon it and there’s not much else to do. and she’s constantly moving forwards and she’s trying to grieve her life as a human but she can’t because she can’t remember anything about it, not even her name. this book is about humanity and relationships and life, and most importantly the chapters and phases we go through, and the push and pull of the past and future, but the stillness of the present. it’s so beautiful and so intriguing, i’ve never related to a zombie more. if you get the chance, i would recommend picking this book up and reading it in a quiet place where you can sit and be alone to digest it all 🤍
what drew me to this book initially was the title. ‘it lasts forever and then it’s over’ - i mean, how brilliant is that? all encompassing of life, of the various phases we live through, of the transitional stages, and of how we’re always moving forward wanting to get to the next stage, the next chapter, that we don’t realise the current one has ended and we’ll never get it back. this is sort of what happens in the book: our unnamed protagonist is a zombie who has lost her arm and has stuffed a dead crow into her chest. she does not need to eat or drink or sleep or even breathe, she technically isn’t alive, but she is. the world is made up of a sparse population of people and zombies, and we don’t know why because she doesn’t know why - she can’t remember anything. but she is searching for something, and that something is ‘you’: a lover, a friend, a child. this book takes us through the empty landscape of the world as the MC travels to the sea because she wants to lay her eyes upon it and there’s not much else to do. and she’s constantly moving forwards and she’s trying to grieve her life as a human but she can’t because she can’t remember anything about it, not even her name. this book is about humanity and relationships and life, and most importantly the chapters and phases we go through, and the push and pull of the past and future, but the stillness of the present. it’s so beautiful and so intriguing, i’ve never related to a zombie more. if you get the chance, i would recommend picking this book up and reading it in a quiet place where you can sit and be alone to digest it all 🤍
What is the book about?
Modern fiction
Modern fiction
Modern fiction
Modern fiction
Modern fiction
Modern fiction
Novella
Novella
Novella
Novella
Novella
Novella
Afterlife
Afterlife
Afterlife
Afterlife
Afterlife
Afterlife
The heroine of the spare and haunting It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over is voraciously alive in the afterlife. Adrift yet keenly aware, she notes every bizarre detail of her new reality. And even if she has forgotten her name and much of what connects her to her humanity, she remembers with an implacable and nearly unbearable longing the place where she knew herself and was known—where she loved and was loved. Traveling across the landscapes of time and of space, heading always west, and carrying a dead but laconically opinionated crow in her chest, our undead narrator encounters and loses parts of her body and her self in one terrifying, hilarious, and heartbreaking situation after another. A tale for our dispossessed times, and one of the sharpest and funniest novels of recent years, It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over plumbs mortality and how it changes everything, except possibly love.
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