We Go Liquid

by Christian TeBordo

A boy receives an email from his mother offering free movie tickets shortly after her death. He recognizes it for spam, but wishes she'd really sent it. He responds, and is soon barraged with offers for male enhancements drugs, home appliances, mortgages, and everything else he never knew he needed, by way of the afterlife. Soon, he and his father are swallowing all manner of black market pharmaceuticals, somehow growing closer together as they fall apart, each in his own way.

222 pages, Paperback

Published November 21, 2023

About the author

Christian TeBordo was born in Albany, New York. His first collection of short stories The Awful Possibilities, is forthcoming from featherproof books in April 2010. He has published three novels, most recently We Go Liquid, and his work has been published in 3rd Bed, Ninth Letter, Torpedo, and Sleeping Fish, among others. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife, the choreographer Kathryn TeBordo, who plays and sings in the indie rock bands The Failed Alliance and Tinmouth.

Reviews

[Lieve]

I...am not quite sure what I think of this book. It was strange and sad and a little bit confusing. I don't know what else I expected from a book about a young boy who thinks his dead mom is speaking to him via spam emails, though.