Concerning the Future of Souls

"Williams is a writer for our times: both visionary and caustic, knowing yet also full of wonder."―Catherine Taylor, The Financial Times
Returning to her legendary short stories, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Joy Williams offers a much-anticipated follow-up to Ninety-Nine Stories of God, which The New York Times Book Review called a "treasure trove of bafflements and tiny masterpieces." Concerning the Future of Souls balances the extraordinary and the humble, the bizarre and the beatific, as Azrael―transporter of souls and the most troubled and thoughtful of the angels―confronts the holy impossibility of his task, his uneasy relationship with Death, and his friendship with the Devil.