Scott Graham
An occasional tear evoking tale of a connection between teenaged romantic partners is told with a great ear for the thoughts of and dialogue between maturing young adults in the often messy senior year of high school as they look forward to transitioning to college and a putative adulthood. If you could still speak with a loved one after they’ve died, what would you say? Author Dustin Thao provides an answer to that question with a believable suggestion that for the living, even a actual death would be treated as a nebulous thing. The conversations would be often mundane and taken for granted, not fraught with deep meaning. Mr. Thao nimbly sidesteps afterlife concepts and questions. For him, and the reader, the conversations and their effects are the thing. Would the ability to speak with your lost loved one soothe or prolong your grief? How would it affect the dearly departed? Those questions are answered in You Have Reached Sam.
An occasional tear evoking tale of a connection between teenaged romantic partners is told with a great ear for the thoughts of and dialogue between maturing young adults in the often messy senior year of high school as they look forward to transitioning to college and a putative adulthood. If you could still speak with a loved one after they’ve died, what would you say? Author Dustin Thao provides an answer to that question with a believable suggestion that for the living, even a actual death would be treated as a nebulous thing. The conversations would be often mundane and taken for granted, not fraught with deep meaning. Mr. Thao nimbly sidesteps afterlife concepts and questions. For him, and the reader, the conversations and their effects are the thing. Would the ability to speak with your lost loved one soothe or prolong your grief? How would it affect the dearly departed? Those questions are answered in You Have Reached Sam.