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Life is Big: For Life’s sake, Death has to meet, Alma-Jane, the happiest girl alive! Kindle Edition

by Kiki Denis (Author), Liya Kebede (Foreword) Format: Kindle Edition
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Alma-Jane, an impossibly curious 11-year-old girl who lives in NYC and the most genetically happy person alive, is about to die due to a rare mutation. Ayrton, Alma-Jane’s older brother and a math prodigy, declares war against Death, “the destroyer of Life,” and then suddenly takes off to Oxford, UK, to examine Albert Einstein’s brain. Meanwhile, Death and his younger brother, O.M. (Obituary Man), are overworked and in desperate need of a short vacation.At the heart of all this, a motley crew of “Minor & Major Immortals” mingle: Socrates, Alma-Jane’s dead grandfather. Dr. Harvey, a neuroscientist who conducts research on “Pure Mighties,” lab engineered mice that lack a fear gene. Sabina, Einstein’s Kunderian mistress. Alfred Butts, Sabina’s best friend and the inventor of the Scrabble board game. Pablo Neruda, who builds bridges for a living and loves kite flying. And, finally, ΩNING, a 7-year-old humanoid who loves playing the piano. What connects all these characters is the belief that “wise-thinking” leads to a longer and happier future, and that it’s the only way to guarantee a “Life bigger than Death.”
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    April 6 2020
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    13 - 18 years
  6. Grade level
    8 - 12
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B086CDQXZX
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 389 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 279 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 20 ratings

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Kiki Denis

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Kiki Denis, originally from Greece, has lived in the US since 1990. She holds a BA from Mount Holyoke College and MA from Exeter University. Her first novel “The Last Day of Paradise” won the Gival Press Novel Award and was published by Gival Press. Kiki's 2nd novel, “Life is Big” is a super-novel and was released as an ebook in 2020! Kiki lives in NY with her husband and 3 kids.

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V.E.
5.0 out of 5 stars Fun Book
Reviewed in the United States on June 11, 2020
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Life is Big by Kiki Denis is a fun and entertaining book, one that will have you examining your life. This book is a great amalgamation of historical figures, fictional characters, and even the dead. Death himself is a character. This is a well-crafted book with an overarching message, that an unexamined life is not worth living. Plenty of fun characters, each on their own journeys. When you have Albert Einstein playing Scrabble with none other than the inventor of Scrabble, you know you have a fun book and one that carries within it copious amounts of wit and humor. A fun and fascinating book that helps you not take life quite so seriously, we are here to explore, learn, and even have fun. Well written, insightful, and compelling, this book is highly recommended.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Life is big !
Reviewed in France on May 16, 2020
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Underneath Kiki's writings you always find meanings and at some point if not happiness, peace of mind, despite pain and sadness. She writes about feelings and ideas that seem contradictory but running deep into them she'll bring you to the core of life where complexity, sensitivity and intelligence bring you to your humanity.
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S. J. Main
3.0 out of 5 stars Complex philosophical story.
Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2020
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Life is big begins with Alma, an 11-year-old girl who passes away. She has a rare genetic mutation. Her brother Ayrton is not happy about losing her sister and goes into war with Death, who is a character tired of collecting souls.

Then you have Albert Einstein playing scrabble with Alfre Butts. Immortal Jellyfish that float around and just more mashed up logician and analytical writing from the author.

Everything put together as a whole was just too confusing and lost its flow of reasonable connectivity. I believe I just wasn't able to connect with this book even though I really wanted to. This, however, does not mean that it wouldn't be just the same for someone else.

The book is geared for people who are very much into an imaginative and unique style of storytelling. The author has very well writing skills as a logician. There are many aspects of the book that makes you wonder about life, Death, existence. The author's views were interesting to me, as well. Before we live, we do not exist, and after we die, we don't exist either, so when were are living, it was perceived as a vacation from none existence.
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Alex
5.0 out of 5 stars A reminder that perfection is perhaps not such an important ingredient for a balanced life.
Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2020
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LIFE IS BIG is a thoughtful and imaginative modern story that connects living, dead, fictional and historical characters. For instance, Alma-Jane is a clever, perfectly happy, curious, and funny 11-year-old who possesses none survival mechanisms whatsoever. Then there is Death, the destroyer of life, who is very tired of “collecting” people and fantasizes of taking a long vacation while he bakes cakes and argues with his youngest brother OM. While in underworld, Albert Einstein (who lives with his Kunderian heroine, Sabina) spends his days playing Scrabble with Alfred Butts, the real inventor of Scrabble. Add to it Turritopsis dohrnii, the immortal jellyfish, that floats through the novel reminding the characters that they are stressing out about mundane egocentric trivialities and forgetting that life is filled with love, joy and kindness, and bigger than anything! All of this makes for a fascinating, whirlwind read for all ages, loaded with fun facts, amusing conversations and precious moments.
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Jenny Goff
4.0 out of 5 stars Unique and Thought Provoking
Reviewed in the United States on July 19, 2020
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I thought this book’s storyline was quite unique and thought provoking. It really made me think differently about life, death, happiness, and immortality. My favorite characters in the book were Alma-Jane, her brother Ayrton, and her friend Alejandro. Alma-Jane is eleven years old and has a genetic mutation that is going to cause her to die unless her brother or her doctor can figure out how to cure it. This part of the story really kept my interest as I read along to see if a cure would be discovered or not. I also liked that the author mixed in other story lines and characters along with Alma-Jane and her story. At first, the different story lines and characters seem separate but as you read along, you start to see the connections between the different people and stories. My only complaint was that there were times throughout the book where the material was a little difficult for me to understand. However, I was still able to enjoy the story as a whole. Also, the last two chapters in the book appeared to have some duplicate information so that was a little confusing. Overall, I thought this was a good book and I really enjoyed the author’s creativity.
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