What Do You When Die?: the Story Beneath I Was Told - A Memoir

She was five years old, standing in the village cemetery, when she first asked what no one around her could answer: What happens when we die? But the question underneath it-the one that would take her decades to face-was simpler, and far more dangerous: Who am I?She looked everywhere. In prayers that went unanswered. In past lives surfacing under hypnosis. In a mountain commune, and in teachers who promised to fix what she believed was broken. Each one said the same thing: trust us. Each one asked her to hand over a little more of herself.What Do You Do When You Die? is the memoir of everything she gave away-and of the question that outlived every answer. It is the story of a mother and a daughter, and of a mind that kept doubting even when doubting hurt.For readers of The Burn Zone by Renee Linnell, How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair, and Forager by Michelle Dowd-and for anyone who was ever handed an answer by a god, a guru, or a voice from the light.Spare, disobedient, and quietly funny about her own seeking, this is not a book about dying. It's about who gets to tell you who you are.