"Bardo Or Not Bardo" by Antoine Volodine ****

▪  Summer read with Beth
▪  French author
▪  Originally published in 2016
▪  Open Letter Series
▪  Review:   A spiritual farce?  A human comedy?  A satiric view of the absurdity of humans?  All of the above?  Volodine takes a belief regarding the afterlife and demonstrates that humans, with their foibles, cannot manage to navigate it without total chaos ensuing. The author even takes a stab at the "play within a play" concept.  Three vignettes within one vignette.  It is a jumbled life, a jumbled afterlife, and a bit of a jumbled read.  Very well done!