Being Dead by Jim Crace
#22 in my 2007 book challenge was Jim Crace’s Being Dead. The book opens with a couple that has just been murdered, and floats back and forth in time to detail what happened before, how they met, and what happens to their bodies afterward. Crace’s command of narrative is impressive. He switches time and perspective, yet the book is seamless. It is an involving story of the couple’s relationship, as well as an often gruesome, but still compelling, description of the biology and zoology of death.