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A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE DEAD by Kevin Brockmeier
Kevin Brockmeier builds his novel, A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE DEAD, on a platitude: the dead live on in the memory of the living. The City is a mysterious metropolis that seems to expand by folding in on itself, much like the convoluted corrugations of the brain, in order to accommodate its ever-increasing population. However, this unearthly metastasis notwithstanding, The City isn’t much different than any urban environment found in the living world. People get up, they go to work, they go grocery shopping, and life is still filled with the minor annoyances endemic to city life like “the blasting sound of garbage trucks in the morning, chewing gum on the pavement, and the smell of rotting fish by the river.â€
June 5, 2011
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Judi Clark · 
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Tags: Contemporary, Death, Speculative (Beyond Reality) · Posted in: Contemporary, Reading Guide, Speculative (Beyond Reality), Theme driven
