Each week as part of SunLit — The Sun’s literature section — we feature staff recommendations from book stores across Colorado. This week, the staff from Old Firehouse Books in Fort Collins recommends a hellish tour, podcaster wisdom and conversation with plants.
From the publisher: As a faithful Mormon, Soren Johansson has always believed he’ll be reunited with his loved ones in an eternal hereafter. Then, he dies. Soren wakes to find himself cast by a God he has never heard of into a Hell whose dimensions he can barely grasp: a vast library he can only escape from by finding the book that contains the story of his life. In this haunting existential novella, author, philosopher, and ecologist Steven L. Peck explores a subversive vision of eternity, taking the reader on a journey through the afterlife of a world where everything everyone believed in turns out to be wrong.
From Zane, bookseller: Ever wanted to go to Hell without actually, like, going to Hell? Totally relatable, everyone feels that way. This book gives you the perfect opportunity to very briefly experience a man’s unfathomably long time in a hell which takes the form of a library containing every single 410-page book that could possibly be written with our alphabet, where the only way out is to find the book that tells your entire life’s story. This novella is super clever, profound, kind of terrifying, and fairly funny. It’s also 110 pages long, so it’ll only take you like 1-100 hours to read, whatever qualifies as delightfully brisk to your unique and special brain…