I used to go to church. I even went through a rather intense religious period when I was sixteen. But the idea of an everlasting life -- a never-ending banquet, as a stupid visiting minister to our church once appallingly described it -- filled me with a greater terror than the concept of extinction.


East Side Story: A Novel (ed. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004) - ISBN: 9780618452446


I used to go to church. I even went through a rather intense religious period when I was sixteen. But the idea of an everlasting life -- a...

I used to go to church. I even went through a rather intense religious period when I was sixteen. But the idea of an everlasting life -- a...

I used to go to church. I even went through a rather intense religious period when I was sixteen. But the idea of an everlasting life -- a...

I used to go to church. I even went through a rather intense religious period when I was sixteen. But the idea of an everlasting life -- a...