Al-Mağallah Al-ʿilmiyyaẗ Li Kulliyyaẗ Al-Adāb - Ǧāmiʿaẗ Asyūṭ

The Enigmatic Lineaments betwixt Life and Death: Posttraumatic Growth in Thomas Pierce’s The Afterlives (2018)

Al-Mağallah Al-ʿilmiyyaẗ Li Kulliyyaẗ Al-Adāb - Ǧāmiʿaẗ Asyūṭ May 26, 2026 Lobna Mohammed Shaddad

Thomas Pierce’s poignant debut novel The Afterlives (2018) premises that God sometimes reincarnates someone in order to give them a second chance – a second chance to ponder life, explore and connect with other people, and question why they exist. The novel tells the story of every man Jim Byrd, a loan officer who suffers a heart attack at age thirty-three. During his fatal cardiac arrest, Jim...