death

The City, where the recently departed reside as long as they are remembered by the living, is home to Kuka Sims, who prints the City's only newspaper, Coleman Kinzler, a vagrant who speaks the word of God, and Marion and Philip Byrd, who find themselves falling in love once again, all of whom are remembered by Laura Byrd, whose own time is running out.

In 1650, while Robert, a young medical student, steels himself to assist with her dissection, twenty-two-year-old housemaid Anne Green recalls her life as she lies in her coffin, presumed dead after being hanged for murdering her child that was, in fact, stillborn.

Eldridge, a twelve-year-old West Virginia boy, and Felton, a banjo player, set out to reunite Tyrane Percival with his long-lost love, Leona, by transporting Tyrane's corpse--on ice in a kiddie pool in the back of a pickup truck--to bury it next to Leona's in Louisiana, but Leona's brother is determined to keep "that jailbird" Tyrane out of the family plot.

The late Bill Cosey, one-time owner of the Cosey Hotel and Resort, a hot spot for vacationing African-Americans, is kept alive through the memories of the women he loved and who were loved by him.

Collection of poems covering a broad spectrum of themes, including love, the natural world, death, and her father.

William Bloom, desperate to get to know his dying father before it's too late, recreates his parent's life in a series of legends and myths based on the few facts he knows.

The story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of his dying so much as a passing thought.

Describes a family's struggle to get their mother properly buried, while they encounter catastrophes of flood and fire, as well as the chaos of their own feelings.

As an aging cat approaches the end of its life, it says goodbye to the animals and humans it has come to know over the years.