Thom Jons (en Inglés) - Bruce Rogers Jackson

This novel follows a man who rejected life and demanded death. It’s set in a small Southern town over the first 29 years of the twentieth century, and ordinary families live through racism, segregation, war, pandemic, suffrage, and lynching.

Guardian angels, Machiventa Melchizedek, and the resurrected characters comment on these lives from beyond the veil. When Thom refuses eternal life, his family and friends appeal to the universal authorities for him.

Drawing on The Urantia Book, the novel asks how our lives look from the other side.