Cloud Six
A Novel
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- Pedido anticipado
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- Se espera: 22 sept 2026
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- USD 14.99
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- Pedido anticipado
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- USD 14.99
Descripción editorial
Surprise, you’re dead! This hilarious and moving novel follows a couple forced into unthinkable challenges when, after dying in a plane crash, they find themselves in the lowest tier of heaven, filled with laughter and dread, fear and acceptance, and family bonds even death can't break
Following a catastrophic plane crash, married couple Mam and Bunko have found themselves in Cloud Six. It's the newest, and lowest, tier of heaven, run by a slumlord demon named Widdershins who takes the form of an underwear model. With a rabbit skeleton as their guide, the pair do their best to remain hopeful and together in their quest: to navigate the strangest of places, to find help, and to catch even one glimpse of the teen daughter they left behind.
While Mam and Bunko try to accept their fate, Widdershins navigates workplace politics and tries to impress an ex lover. And Amy, who appears in the book as our guide and scribe, grapples with how to tell an honest story with Satan breathing down her neck.
Cloud Six is Amy Fusselman at her most original and heartfelt, offering a blistering yet humorous take on the many trials of contemporary life, including parenting, substance abuse, depression, gun violence, and climate change.
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A middle-aged Arizona couple find themselves in the lowest level of heaven after dying in a plane crash in this laugh-out-loud novel from Fusselman (Idiophone). The reader meets Mam and Bunko a day before their fiery demise. At a book club meeting hosted by Mam's colleague and lifelong friend, Brenda, Bunko drinks too much and treats Brenda rudely. Mam is reluctant to apologize because she resents Brenda for earning a higher salary at the Scottsdale Middle School One (Mam is a learning specialist, and Brenda is vice principal). Hoping to improve her miserable life, Mam has applied to teach at a private school in Connecticut. She and Bunko leave her teen daughter, Penny, in Arizona and fly there for a job interview, but the plane goes down. The couple wind up in Cloud Six, where an entry-level demon disguised as Brenda ("the last person Mam wanted to see") informs them that they're dead. Fusselman adds depth to the zany story as Mam desperately seeks a way to connect with Penny, and there's no shortage of humor, particularly in a subplot devoted to Cloud Six manager Widdershins, who hopes to improve his station by updating the look of Cloud Six with help from his ex, an interior decorator who lives in hell. Readers will delight in every page.
