In this memoir of the past decade, Kurt Vonnegut examines issues and events, both personal and cultural, ranging freely through time, fusing memory and imagination. The subjects range from a death in the family, Vonnegut's own brush with suicidal depression or the future of the planet; Ronald Reagan, Salman Rushdie or Andrew Loyd Webber; unicorns, Alcoholics Anonymous and his keen interest in discovering whether there is indeed a fate worse than death.