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Critical Praise Canonical images of the imagined terrors of the afterlife find perfect accompaniment in Reckonings, Thomas Farber’s witty and searing reflections on sin, mortality, and the corporeal truth of even the most omnipresent–seemingly inescapable–among us." Shawna Yang Ryan, author of Water Ghosts and Green Island Opinionator-in-Chief, Demonizer-in-Chief: Reckonings provides pejorative titles for DJT, then notes an exhaustive list is hard to come by, which is fine with the writer. Contempt's not the only fish he's after. What interests him is awareness of his own mortality juxtaposed against DJT's apparent lack of it. "Having fought so long for attention and dominance, can he [DJT] grasp the dazzling equality—democracy!— of all humans in death?” In pithy paragraphs, the author suggests how DJT may approach that apotheosis. Though ‘just weighing the options,' the writer's reckoning of his own mortality overshadows any future the Self-Deifier-in-Chief can imagine for himself. A wise and shrewd weighing, an illuminating read. |