Four great novels and a story that lives rent free in my head

Plus does Obama actually read all those books?

There’s an experimental short story collection called Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlife that I find myself thinking about more than almost any other book I’ve read. Penned by neuroscientist David Eagleman, the book offers forty short, imaginative versions of the afterlife—all told in crisp writing and second person narration that really invites the re…