Little Deaths All in a Row

"What do you think happens after we die?" has been Elizabeth Earley's favorite conversation starter since the motorcycle accident that almost killed her. In Little Deaths All in a Row: Essays on Sex and Death, Earley delves into memories of past lovers and offers vivid portraits of the hospice patients she has worked with after recovering from her own near-fatal injuries. Tracing the many connections-philosophical, scientific, ethical, and spiritual-between sex and death, these lyric essays ponder the afterlife, pain and pleasure, quantum entanglement and love, and the "strange and painful goodness of being alive."