<p>Leo Bryce is a cynical (and slightly neurotic) college senior when he meets Fiona Haeberle, a lithe, impulsive, aspiring actress who spends most of her time pontificating on the cosmic nature of the world. The two fall fast in love and spend the next three years living in wide-eyed domestic bliss as Leo goes to law school and then to an advocacy group, trying to get inmates off death row, and Fiona finds success as a soap actress. Life feels like a fairytale, but when the perfect love affair stalls, teeters, and implodes, Leo is thrust into crisis. He immerses himself obsessively in the case he's working, that of Georgia inmate Michael Tiegs. 'Born again' Tiegs has some unusual theories about life - both this one, and the one to come - and becomes an object of fascination to Leo even as he tries to get Tiegs off the hook. But can either man really save the other? And what kind of salvation is it we're all in search of, anyway?</p><p>At once obsessively readable, philosophically probing, and verbally acrobatic,<i>The Life of the World to Come</i>announces Dan Cluchey as a fresh new voice in fiction.</p>