Review: Make a date for Tea With Death
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 6, 2012
Tea With Death finds the unnamed host and narrator welcoming Death for what he hopes will be an enlightening conversation. Getting on in years himself and having lost his youngest son to suicide born of depression, the host has many questions about how death actually occurs and what happens after. He also has a secret agenda he plans to spring on Death if the opportunity presents itself.The concept of man sitting down for a conversation with the Grim Reaper is certainly not new in book or film, but it usually comes with either a boatload of pretentiousness or too much slapstick irreverence. Author Joel M. Andre, however, strikes just the right balance. Death and his host indeed reflect upon the process of dying, and along the way Death shares many of the secrets of his profession. He does so, however, with a wicked sense of humor and more than a dash of sarcasm.The host may well come to regret inviting Death inside, but Andre's cleverly constructed philosophical reflections on death peppered with sarcasm and one-liners makes it a guarantee you won't regret making a date for Tea With Death.