I devoured this book. Lillian Moats brilliantly makes Death the narrator of a tour through hell and war, which are both rooted in fear itself. We hear of the litany of hells that religion has invented to scare us into blind obedience. Filled with punch lines that make you laugh and cry, The Letter from Death shows the hell of war that in the end is as horrible as the medieval worms and fire of the Christian church’s imagined afterlife. But by the end of the book we see Death as the empathetic curator of humanity’s most precious yearnings for life, while the warmongers among us turn out to be the real Grim Reapers of death.
Read this book and you will look at death–and life in a newly liberated way. David Moats’ illustrations, sometimes chilling, always provocative, make the imagination glow.
Michael McConnell
Regional Director, American Friends Service Committee
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