When Do I See God?: Finding the Path to Heaven Hot

Steven Drilach’s sudden death propels him into an afterlife that can only be imagined. After a few minutes of disorientation, Steven is welcomed to his new reality by Cham, a nice-enough fellow who appears in order to answer Steven’s inevitable questions and help him gain perspective on all that has happened.

“The area is filled with the creativity of your thoughts,” Cham tells him. “What you see here is of your own creation.” What follows is a wild ride of possibilities and personalities that serve as a sort of puzzle for Steven to fit together in order to fully understand what has happened and why.

Clearly the author is still alive, so the ideas presented here are speculation, no more or less valid than anyone’s musings and imaginings. Ianniello explains that, rather than a dry collection of his thoughts about the afterlife, he chose to put his ideas into novel form and use the character of Steven Drilach to showcase not only one man’s experience of death and life, but also to contrast physical and spiritual existence.

WHEN DO I MEET GOD? provides a scenario that challenges what we believe and encourages readers to ponder the nature of the spiritual connection between life and death in an expansive way, not just throughout the novel but every day afterward. Ianniello’s writing is good, but every novel needs an editor. In this case, an eagle eye could have weeded out the repetition and tightened the dialogue. That said, however, the story of Steven Drilach’s afterlife is compelling and thoughtfully rendered. WHEN DO I MEET GOD? is one of those books that will be talked about; in fact, it would be an excellent choice for any book discussion group that is open to exploring the nature of consciousness and faith.