All of Us Together in the End Audiobook Libro.fm

Matthew Vollmers family memoir shimmers with wonder and enchantment and begins with the death of his mother from earlyonset Alzheimers and Parkinsons Soon after flashing lights and floating orbs appear in the woods surrounding his familys home in rural North Carolina where his widowed father lives Formative memories of having been raised in the Seventhday Adventist church resurge in Vollmers mind hastening selfreexamination and reckoning He corresponds with a retired geology professor about ghost lights which supposedly occur more in North Carolina than any other American state He scrolls TikTok He contacts an eccentric shaman who lives in Spain to have transcendental psychotherapy administered over Zoom And then Jolene emerges a woman endeared for decades to Vollmers father holding secrets to their familys past Amidst the turmoil and loneliness of the pandemic All of Us Together in the End is a poignant and often humorous investigation into belief set in a time where it seems people will believe anything It is an elegiac affirmation of the awesome strange otherworldly ways our loved ones remain alive to us even when they are out of reach