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A Citizen of the Next Life
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 8 2026
Pages: 244
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
At 3:17 in the morning, Thomas Whitmore lies awake in his expensive apartment and knows something is wrong with himself. He has spent fifteen years building a life designed to make that feeling impossible. It has not worked.
When his world begins to collapse, a trade gone wrong, a woman who tells him the truth about what he is, a legal investigation that strips away every layer of professional armor, he finds himself parked outside a Greek Orthodox church in Astoria, unable to drive away. What he hears through the door changes the direction of his life.
A Citizen of the Next Life follows Thomas from the financial towers of Midtown Manhattan to a monastery on the Holy Mountain of Athos, where he submits to an ancient rule of prayer, labor, and silence, and discovers that the interior life he has been managing for years cannot be managed at all. It can only be faced.
This is a novel about spiritual warfare as it is actually waged: in the repetition of a twelve-word prayer, in the thoughts that arrive unbidden in a monastery cell, in the slow recognition that what a man calls his personality may be a construction he built over something he has not seen in years. And in the harder recognition that mercy does not require the construction to be finished before it arrives.
Rooted in Eastern Orthodox theology and monastic life, this is a serious literary novel about repentance, hiddenness, and the cost of becoming, at last, simply human.
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