Nether Regions
By (Author) Randal Graham
ECW Press,Canada
ECW Press,Canada
1st October 2022
Canada
Paperback
420
Width 140mm, Height 216mm
Gear up for laughter in the hereafter as Socrates sets out to assassinate every soul who can remember the mortal world
Two of the afterlifes most recognisable souls have the first baby born in the hereafter. The baby holds a secret that brings together historys most recognisable characters as Socrates sets out on an uproarious quest to assassinate everyone who can remember the mortal world.
What do you get when a narcissistic megalomaniac plagued by daddy issues leads a horde of angry zealots, xenophobes, and ornery incels on a crusade to Make the Afterlife Great Again You get an out-of-this-world adventure in which historys greatest minds face an apocalypse that could make Armageddon look like a cotillion.
You also get Nether Regions, the third installment of Randal Grahams Beforelife Series. Picking up the threads of Beforelife and Afterlife Crisis, Nether Regions reveals what happens when two of the afterlifes best-known residents have a baby: the first one born in the hereafter. That baby holds a secret one that sets off an adventure featuring Socrates, Albert Einstein, Nostradamus, Elizabeth I, Sigmund Freud, Neferneferuaten, and at least 200 Napoleons, all doing their level best to keep the afterlife from turning into hell.
'Filled with wordplay to die for, Randal Grahams latest dizzying, irresistible life-after-death satire tackles perennial existential questions with humour and hunger.' Foreword Reviews on Afterlife Crisis
"Graham draws from both today's headlines and ancient myths to create a world like no other, and never hesitates to ask huge philosophical questions in the most outlandish of settings. Biting, witty and whip smart." -- The Miramichi Reader
Randal Graham is a law professor at Western University. His first novel, Beforelife, won the IPPY gold medal for fantasy fiction. Both Beforelife and its first sequel, Afterlife Crisis, were top ten finalists for the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour. He lives in London, ON.