2024/115: The Book of Two Ways — Jodie Picoult

2024/115: The Book of Two Ways — Jodie Picoult

...what fascinated me most about the Book of Two Ways was how comforting it would be to have a map to reach the afterlife. Even the Ancient Egyptians recognized that knowledge was the difference between a good death and a bad one. [p. 211]

The Book of Two Ways is an ancient Egyptian text is a map of the underworld, describing two routes to the afterlife -- by land or by water -- and the lake of fire and knife wielders that lies between those paths. The Book of Two Ways is a novel about Dawn, a 'death doula', who helps the dying towards a good death: and it is about her marriage to physicist Brian, her youthful affair with archaeologist Wyatt, and her daughter Meret.

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