All of Us Together in the End

All Of Us Together In The End is a lyrical examination of transformation after loss, by a writer the New York Times calls "irresistible" and "utterly convincing."Vollmer's family memoir shimmers with wonder and enchantment and begins with the death of his mother from early-onset Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. Soon after, flashing lights and floating orbs appear in the woods surrounding his family's home in rural North Carolina, where his widowed father lives. Formative memories of having been raised in the Seventh-day Adventist church resurge in Vollmer's mind, hastening self-reexamination and reckoning. He corresponds with a retired geology professor about "ghost lights," which supposedly occur more in North Carolina than any other American state. He scrolls TikTok. He contacts an eccentric shaman who lives in Spain to have transcendental psychotherapy administered over Zoom. And then Jolene emerges, a woman endeared for decades to Vollmer's father, holding secrets to their family's past. Amidst the turmoil and loneliness of the pandemic, All of Us Together in the End is a poignant and often humorous investigation into belief set in a time where it seems people will believe anything. It is an elegiac affirmation of the awesome, strange, otherworldly ways our loved ones remain alive to us, even when they are out of reach.

A propos de l'auteur

Matthew Vollmer is the author of two short-story collections as well as three collections of essays. He was the editor of A Book of Uncommon Prayer, which collects invocations from over 60 acclaimed and emerging authors, and served as co-editor of Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, "Found" Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts. His work has appeared in venues such as Paris Review, Glimmer Train, Ploughshares, Tin House, Oxford American, The Sun, The Pushcart Prize anthology, and Best American Essays. He teaches in the English Department at Virginia Tech and lives in Blacksburg, VA.

Résumé

All Of Us Together In The End is a lyrical examination of transformation after loss, by a writer the New York Times calls "irresistible" and "utterly convincing."

Vollmer’s family memoir shimmers with wonder and enchantment and begins with the death of his mother from early-onset Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. Soon after, flashing lights and floating orbs appear in the woods surrounding his family’s home in rural North Carolina, where his widowed father lives. Formative memories of having been raised in the Seventh-day Adventist church resurge in Vollmer’s mind, hastening self-reexamination and reckoning.

He corresponds with a retired geology professor about “ghost lights,” which supposedly occur more in North Carolina than any other American state. He scrolls TikTok. He contacts an eccentric shaman who lives in Spain to have transcendental psychotherapy administered over Zoom. And then Jolene emerges, a woman endeared for decades to Vollmer’s father, holding secrets to their family’s past.

Amidst the turmoil and loneliness of the pandemic, All of Us Together in the End is a poignant and often humorous investigation into belief set in a time where it seems people will believe anything. It is an elegiac affirmation of the awesome, strange, otherworldly ways our loved ones remain alive to us, even when they are out of reach.

Préface

Publicity and Outreach

• 3/2023: BookPage
• 3/6: Library Journal review
• 3/14: Interview on I'm a Writer But Podcast
• 4/4: Pedagogy essay on LitHub
• 4/23: Excerpt in Gravy 
• CONFIRMED: Publishers Weekly, Starred
• CONFIRMED: Foreword Reviews, Starred
• CONFIRMED: Excerpt in the Oxford American (online)
• CONFIRMED: Coverage on Slate
• CONFIRMED: The Georgia Review, Full-Stop
• CONFIRMED: Review in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
• CONFIRMED: Coverage in Mountain Xpress
• Audiobook will be released by Dreamscape
  
  
• Outreach to enthusiastic readers of Leslie Jamison, Helen McDonald, Alexander Chee and other prominent nonfiction authors
• ARCs at tradeshows including Winter Institute and ALA Midwinter
• Seeking coverage in monthly magazines including O Magazine, EW, Vogue, Marie Claire, Vanity Fair, GQ, and newspapers The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Star-Tribune, NPR and more.
• Coverage on literary sites including LitHub, Electric Lit, the Chicago Review of Books, and Gravy
• Off-the-book essay placement including essays about grief
• Outreach to outlets that focus on literary titles, like the Orion, the Sun, Brevity, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Events

• Event with the Hub City Bookshop, Spartanburg, SC: March 12
• Book launch: Blacksburg Library / Blacksburg Books, Blacksburg, VA: April 4
• Malaprops, Asheville, NC: May 22
• The Bookshop, Nashville, TN: May 24
• Workshop with the Porch: May 25
• Southern tour including book events in Mid-Atlantic and South (VA, DC, NC, SC, and GA).
• Strong presence at book fests (Southern Book Festival, Virginia Festival of the Book, Greensboro Bound)

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Matthew Vollmer
• Edition: Ingram Publishers Services
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 04.04.2023, retardé
• EAN: 9798885740050
• ISBN: 979-8-88574-005-0
• Pages: 256
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Philosophie, religion > Religions chrétiennes; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Death, Grief, Bereavement, RELIGION / Christianity / Seventh-Day Adventist, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Supernatural (incl. Ghosts)