The Brief History of the Dead - Kevin Brockmeier

Let me say first that this is a really hard book to review, thanks Chocolatelady for suggesting that I write this review. The reason it is so hard is because whilst there is a basic storyline and plot, it does not fit easily into any genre, and it is one of those books that touches such personal places that everone that reads it will feel differently about it. The only other book that is 'similar' is the five people you meet in heaven by Mitch Albom. The story/plot: There is a place where the dead go, not heaven, but a city, somewhere in the cosmos, very like an American city, it has; shops, resuarants, newspapers, parks etc. People who have ...