13. Remember You Will Die

By Eden Robins (321 pp)

Eden is one of my Clarion West classmates and I read an early stage partial in writer's group when she was still figuring out whether this idea would work. This was my first chance to read the entire book and since I knew how much she struggled to pull the manuscript together, it was fun to see how it came together. It is fantastic. It's told through obituaries and jumps around in time. I suggest going into it blind because it's a hard book to classify -- it's like a well curated little musuem where every time you turn the page, you never know what you'll get. For readers who like quirky, smart, thought-provoking stories.