“Author Anthony Weller’s short novel about a bewildering but intriguing life after death is a feat of imagination and writing...The Land of Later On reads like a grownup’s bedtime story that the likable Kip is relating under the most fraught and urgent circumstances. When you leave this not-so-strange world, you may fall asleep, but Kip has the power to penetrate dreams.”

— Rockford Register Star on The Land of Later On

The Land of Later On

ISBN: 9781612182254


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The Land of Later On


by Anthony Weller


Kip—a New York jazz pianist whose career was cut short by a neurological disease—returns from a failed suicide attempt with a vivid, detailed memory of his journey through the afterlife. Resembling the world as he knows it, but unlimited in space and time, it’s unlike any eternity he has contemplated. Its residents are those who choose not to reincarnate, which would erase all memory of who they once were. Kip has a quest: to find his beloved Lucy, a yoga teacher who shared his apartment for years but died of leukemia before he took his own life. Is she still here? Has she waited for him, or “gone back” to become someone else? In his odyssey across centuries and locales (Istanbul to the Marquesas Islands, India to Oklahoma and New Guinea) to find her, Kip is guided by Walt Whitman—who urges him to write this memoir on his return.