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 happens when we die? Everyone around her already knew the answer. That was the problem.In the decades that followed, there was always someone waiting to hand her a final truth. Her mother. The church. A husband. A guru in his mountain commune. Healers who promised to fix what she believed was broken in her. A voice from the light. I know who you are, each of them said. Let me handle it. And she let them.She took all of them at their word, for a while. Her analytical mind stayed switched on inside every experience built to switch it off: a shaman's drum, meditation, hypnosis. One day, she stopped asking anyone else.What Do You Do When You Die? is the story of everything she gave away, and of the question that outlived every answer she was handed.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.