Kipâ€”a New York jazz pianist whose career was cut short by a neurological diseaseâ€”returns from a failed suicide attempt with a vivid, detailed memory of his journey through the

The Land of Later On

Kipâ€”a New York jazz pianist whose career was cut short by a neurological diseaseâ€”returns from a failed suicide attempt with a vivid, detailed memory of his journey through the afterlife. Resembling the world as he knows it, but unlimited in space and time, itâ€™s unlike any eternity he has contemplated. Its residents are those who choose not to reincarnate, which would erase all memory of who they once were. Kip has a quest: to find his beloved Lucy, a yoga teacher who shared his apartment for years but died of leukemia before he took his own life. Is she still here? Has she waited for him, or â€œgone backâ€ to become someone else? In his odyssey across centuries and locales (Istanbul to the Marquesas Islands, India to Oklahoma and New Guinea) to find her, Kip is guided by Walt Whitmanâ€”who urges him to write this memoir on his return.

The Land of Later On