<div> Claire Bidwell Smith follows <i>The Rules of Inheritance</i>?soon to be a major motion picture starring Jennifer Lawrence?with After This, an exploration of the afterlife that is part personal, part prescriptive?an invitation on a journey into the unknown.</div><div> In her therapy practice specializing in grief, Smith confronts the quandary?what happens next? In a dynamic five-part structure, she answers the unanswerable questions?Will I ever see my parents again? Can my parents see me now, even though they are gone? Will I remain connected to my own daughters when I die??for herself and for all of us. Chronicling our steps along the path that bridges this world and the next, she undergoes past-life regressions and sessions with mediums and psychics and immerses herself in the ceremonies of organized religion and the rigor of scientific experiments.</div><div> <i>After This</i> is unique in the power of the personal that underlies the book’s message: What we believe about what happens next affects everything about how we live?and love?right now.</div>