SOLVED. the last person on earth [s]

[Neile]

I devoured this book, but I guess I didn't quite digest it, because I completely forget what it was. I keep having deja vu about it:

Tainted Coca-Cola is killing off the human race. When people die, they go to a city populated by people still connected to the living. That city empties out as humanity dies, leaving only people connected to the last living person, a researcher on the North Pole. (or something like that.)

It was published in the past year. I got it from the New Releases shelf at the library, but it's not there any more.

[Peggy]

I can't find a description of the book (beyond "a collection of short stories) to save my life, but Dave Godfrey wrote a book called Death Goes Better With Coca-Cola. Could that be it?

[Laura]

You're talking about A Brief History of the Dead, by Kevin Brockmeier. People have had mixed reactions to it, but I thought it was a very fine book, too.

[Neile]

Thanks so much. I think I'll be re-reading it this weekend...and paying attention this time.

[Laura]

It got a pan the likes of which I've rarely seen in the Sunday Times Book Review, but frankly, I think the critic (and I don't remember who it was) didn't understand the point of the book.

[Rosa]

The Brief History of the Dead for the link.