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Better Ways of Being Dead
by Christian TeBordo

Advanced Recomposition. He only needs one more elective, any elective. However, in this class, the students have to keep one palm down on the table at all times, and listen to lectures about a panda who speaks Chinese. Surely there must be a better way to get health insurance to cover his chronic congenital dermatitis…

"In this mind-warping, time-looping, wonderfully smart novel, there are "pants involved, and no pants, and stiletto heels and fortune cookies and the devil herself, indirectly." Throw in a polar bear suit, a creepy professor or two, suicide that doesn't stick, an intrepid narrator who is not afraid to drive an old stolen hearse through deep snow, and you've got the makings of something, well, unusual (and thank God)! Which is another way of saying, wow, I'm really, really glad I read this. You will be too."
— Laird Hunt, author of The Impossibly and The Exquisite

"Like Carter Scholz or George Saunders, TeBordo mines absurdist territory..."
— Publishers Weekly