What Happens Next?
Matters of Life and Death by Douglas Bauer

“These are some of the finest, if not the finest, personal essays I have ever read.
With exacting and exquisite prose, Douglas Bauer achieves the truly remarkable
here: he plumbs the heart of his mid-western family with brave and naked
fairness, rendering his own mortality with a steadfastly clear-eyed and
life-loving attention to all that is essential, our shared human frailty and
resilience and those tangled but lasting ties that bind. What Happens Next?
Matters of Life and Death is a masterful, soul-nourishing work, and I simply
cannot recommend it highly enough”
—Andre Dubus III, author, Townie: A Memoir