Goshena: Queen of the Big In-Betweena - Softcover

Bright, Chuck

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0990739805 ISBN 13: 9780990739807

Publisher: Dr Chucky Pubns, 2015

Synopsis

A graphic novel by Chuck Bright 
Art by Maureen Burdock

Goshena: Queen of the Big In-Betweena addresses questions of death and the afterlife with jest and satire, proposing alternative views on a subject that is often taboo. This surrealistic story features Goshena, hired to greet the newly deceased. Volatile and unpredictable, she has no qualms about throwing dissident arrivals to Jingles, her giant soul-eating frog. 

Goshena's most recent assignment is to welcome Soul #24 (the number inscribed on his morgue drawer), a recalcitrant soul who refuses to accept that he has died and has reasons to return to the Living. But can he or must he go home with Goshena and Jingles? Or ... will he pass his death quiz and move toward the Light? 

There are no harps or halos in Goshena's neck of the woods. This is the Big In-Betweena, the turbulent, fog-enshrouded space between life and death.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"Chuck Bright gives new meaning to deadpan humor in this most surreal of not-so-life journeys. If you end up loving Goshena, which you will, make sure you don't bring her home to mother."
--Tarek Shahin,
Author of Rise and the Al Khan series
 
"Goshena: Queen of the Big In-Betweena is graphic novelist Chuck Bright's vivid foray into the brash, vibrant world of Goshena New Paris, a life-after-death self-appointed Queen Solomon of souls. With a singular voice and a thoroughly engaging point of view, Chuck has created a surreal universe where heaven, hell, and purgatory collide."
--Diana Ossana
Screenwriter/Producer, Brokeback Mountain

"Goshena hooked me from the very first page. This woman has attitude, and you'll absolutely love her. Highly recommended."
--Alan A. Larson
Author of The Last Gypsy Princess
 
"I'm very impressed by the style and quality of the graphics." 
--Sheri Davenport
Screenwriter of Lucky Christmas and coauthor of On the Way to Woodstock
 
"Author Chuck Bright gives us an unforgettable character in Goshena, who you will be thinking about and giggling over long after you're done reading. Maureen Burdock's illustrations perfectly capture the world Bright has created, a world that like the book's protagonist, you'll be sad to leave when you reach the last page."
 --Jennie Wood, author of Flutter and A Boy Like Me

From the Inside Flap:

Goshena: Queen of the Big In-Betweena, the first in a series of surrealistic novels featuring fearless and impatient Goshena New Paris, introduces a parallel world where life ends and death begins. In the Big In-Betweena--this turbulent, fog-filled space between life and death--the Dark always works to sabotage the Light. And Goshena, whose job it is to order newly deceased souls out of their coffins or pull their physical remains from the drawers of morgues, has no qualms about feeding those who annoy her to her soul-eating frog, Jingles. 

But when Soul #24 enters the blinding fog refusing to accept that he has died, his obsessive, ruminative behaviors intrigue her. Although he has reasons for wanting to return to life, he quickly learns who's in charge. He ultimately discovers that the only way to escape Goshena's grip and move toward the Light is by passing a death quiz designed to test his knowledge of his previous life as well as his honesty and integrity.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dr Chucky Pubns
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0990739805
• ISBN 13: 9780990739807
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 146
• Illustrator: Burdock Maureen