Posthumously Yours

The wry and humorous voice of The Wedding People meets the ethical explorations of the Netflix series, After Life, in this final missive by an anonymous author, who insisted on living (and dying) on his own terms.A mordantly funny novel about choosing your own ending—and discovering life has edits. According to Charlie Braun's mother, he's been trying to make his exit from the world since the day he was born—with the umbilical cord wrapped around his neck. Charlie and Mel have spent their lives together bickering, Scrabbling, and discussing the world. Now that she's passed on to the next life, he feels free, completely free, for the first time. He checks himself into Life Support Systems, LLC, for an "e;unspecified chronic malady"e; and prepares for his own final exit.Yet others don't want to let him go, or do they? When Charlie strikes up a quick friendship with Maeve, the brash representative from the suicide hotline, he wonders about her motivations. His neighbor, Grace, in addition to making surprising sexual advances, dishes out uninvited advice about having gumption and navigating life's detours. And although Charlie never wavers in his desire to punch his ticket for the afterworld, he wonders about his ability to make good on this long-standing promise to himself.Posthumously Yours is a novel by an anonymous author, a final missive, an explanation, an exploration of one man's experience of the world. With acerbic wit and an intuitive, infectious, and disarmingly humorous voice, Charles D. Braun has written a stunning testament to a life less lived that will have every reader contemplating the biggest questions we have as humans and the author's insistence on living (and dying) under his own terms."e;Wry irony, satirical observation, and a purposeful lean towards developing a final solution permeate a story replete with engrossing descriptions and experiences which center around Braun's determination to assess and employ all the tools in society to make his final choices.Libraries that choose Posthumously Yours for fiction collections will find it appealing not just to literature audiences, but to anyone contemplating issues of death, end of life, survival, and dark observations. Its ability to raise accompanying questions of moral and ethical depth makes Posthumously Yours an excellent choice for book club discussion."e;—D. Donovan, Sr. Reviewer, Midwest Book ReviewA portion of the proceeds for this novel will be donated to the American Foundation of Suicide Prevention. Are you in a crisis? Call or text 988 or text TALK to 741741