The Swerve ch 1
2-1-Q Two specific details that stuck out to me was the mother not being afraid about the afterlife, but more of death. “My mother was not afraid of the afterlife: like most Jews she had only vague and hazy sense of what might lie beyond the grave, and she gave it very little thought. It was death itself-simply ceasing to be-that terrified her” (Pg 3 Ch 3). I find it interesting because later on you find her reasoning to her…