Thomas Pierce is the author of the novel, THE AFTERLIVES, and the short story collection, HALL OF SMALL MAMMALS. A recipient of the 5 Under 35 award from the National Book Foundation, his stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Zoetrope, The Oxford American, and Virginia Quarterly Review and anthologized in The Best American Non-Required Reading and O. Henry Prize Stories. He has reported for NPR and National Geographic Magazine.  Born and raised in South Carolina, he recieved his M.F.A. from the University of Virginia as  Poe/Faulkner Fellow and currently lives near Charlottesville, VA with his wife and daughters.

Books by Thomas Pierce

The Afterlives

by Thomas Pierce - Fiction

Jim Byrd died. Technically. For a few minutes. The diagnosis: heart attack at age 30. Revived with no memory of any tunnels, lights or angels, Jim wonders what, if anything, awaits us on the other side. Then a ghost shows up. Maybe. Jim and his new wife, Annie, find themselves tangling with holograms, psychics, messages from the beyond, and a machine that connects the living and the dead. As Jim and Annie journey through history and fumble through faith, they confront the specter of loss that looms for anyone who dares to fall in love.