The questions have haunted humankind for centuries: What happens after we die? What is the nature of heaven and a hell? What is our place in “eternity”?
In this startling, funny, compulsively readable, and thought-provoking novel, Michael J. Honig tackles the issues head-on.
After John Castlemaine’s bizarre “insect-assisted suicide,” he lands in “RotaryPug,” a surreal Purgatory-like realm filled with countless souls awaiting their final judgment—a promotion to heaven or descent into hell.
As Castlemaine awaits a very unexpected Judgment, the afterlife brings him face-to-face with an unforgettable cast of volatile, Kafkaesque personalities: a charming Welsh hangman, an ill-tempered Viking bartender, an Ottoman sultan, a sadistic Puritan minister, a vulgar Russian count, a beautiful Victorian courtesan, a rhyming court jester, and—most chilling of all—Satan himself.
As his post-life world is buffeted by the winds of debauchery, violence, lust, and treachery, Castlemaine is forced to reevaluate life, nihilism, and the moral value or bankruptcy of his life’s actions . . . as forces beyond his control wrestle with his uncertain fate.
About the Author
MICHAEL J. HONIG of Irvington, New York, is database engineer at a midsize healthcare company in Manhattan. He enjoys reading classical literature, writing poetry, attending Broadway musicals, playing tennis, and hiking in the Catskills. This is his first novel.
The questions have haunted humankind for centuries: What happens after we die? What is the nature of heaven and a hell? What is our place in “eternity”?
In this startling, funny, compulsively readable, and thought-provoking novel, Michael J. Honig tackles the issues head-on.
After John Castlemaine’s bizarre “insect-assisted suicide,” he lands in “RotaryPug,” a surreal Purgatory-like realm filled with countless souls awaiting their final judgment—a promotion to heaven or descent into hell.
As Castlemaine awaits a very unexpected Judgment, the afterlife brings him face-to-face with an unforgettable cast of volatile, Kafkaesque personalities: a charming Welsh hangman, an ill-tempered Viking bartender, an Ottoman sultan, a sadistic Puritan minister, a vulgar Russian count, a beautiful Victorian courtesan, a rhyming court jester, and—most chilling of all—Satan himself.
As his post-life world is buffeted by the winds of debauchery, violence, lust, and treachery, Castlemaine is forced to reevaluate life, nihilism, and the moral value or bankruptcy of his life’s actions . . . as forces beyond his control wrestle with his uncertain fate.
About the Author
MICHAEL J. HONIG of Irvington, New York, is database engineer at a midsize healthcare company in Manhattan. He enjoys reading classical literature, writing poetry, attending Broadway musicals, playing tennis, and hiking in the Catskills. This is his first novel.