The 100 one-page stories in Marc X Grigoroff's collection When You Die hover over, dive at, and dart away from the absurdities, ironies, and tragedies of death. Each tiny story is a slippery yet satisfying whole. In the aggregate, the collection is a consistently surprising, uniformly delightful, highly entertaining evocation of the perplexed grimaces, crooked grins, cascading tears, and flickering hope worthy of its momentous subject. With Grigoroff as our guide, death has never been so life-affirming. - ROBERT FROMBERG Author of How to Walk with Steve