Book Description
Surprise, you’re dead! This hilarious and moving novel follows a couple forced into unthinkable challenges when, after dying in a plane crash, they find themselves in the lowest tier of heaven, filled with laughter and dread, fear and acceptance, and family bonds even death can’t break
Following a catastrophic plane crash, married couple Mam and Bunko have found themselves in Cloud Six. It’s the newest, and lowest, tier of heaven, run by a slumlord demon named Widdershins who takes the form of an underwear model. With a rabbit skeleton as their guide, the pair do their best to remain hopeful and together in their quest: to navigate the strangest of places, to find help, and to catch even one glimpse of the teen daughter they left behind.
While Mam and Bunko try to accept their fate, Widdershins navigates workplace politics and tries to impress an ex lover. And Amy, who appears in the book as our guide and scribe, grapples with how to tell an honest story with Satan breathing down her neck.
Cloud Six is Amy Fusselman at her most original and heartfelt, offering a blistering yet humorous take on the many trials of contemporary life, including parenting, substance abuse, depression, gun violence, and climate change.
Praise For This Book
"I loved this book. Nothing is what you expect, but somehow it all makes perfect sense. Amy Fusselman is a great comic writer." —John Slattery“Leave it to Amy Fusselman to hold a cracked mirror to our world—neglected, mismanaged, unsteady, prone to random violence—and call it heaven. As absurd as it is tender, as hilarious as it is dreadful, Cloud Six is yet another sui generis work of brilliance from a writer at the height of her powers.” —Antoine Wilson, author of Mouth to Mouth
"Cloud Six is where metaphors become real, the body falls away, and death is not. Is this a novel? Only if we all are." —Jeffrey J. Kripal, author of How to Think Impossibly: About Souls, UFOs, Time, Belief, and Everything Else
