The Gazebo Gazette
PASS CHRISTIAN (GG) — What if everyone in Pass Christian read the same book and then joined together to talk about it? That is the idea behind One Book, One Pass. The 2026 selected author is award-winning war correspondent Sebastian Junger and the book selection is In My Time Of Dying: How I Came Face to Face With The Idea of an Afterlife.
Over the next several months, the community is encouraged to read the book and engage in book discussions and other programs that will culminate in the Author Presentation by Sebastian Junger on Thursday, November 19th at 6:30pm at the Randolph Center in Pass Christian (315 Clark Avenue).
Sebastian Junger is the #1 New York Times Bestselling author of The Perfect Storm, Fire, A Death in Belmont, War, Tribe, Freedom and our selected book, In My Time of Dying. As an award-winning journalist, a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and a special correspondent at ABC News, he has covered major international news stories around the world, and has received both a National Magazine Award and a Peabody Award. Junger is also a documentary filmmaker whose debut film Restrepo, was nominated for an Academy Award and won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance.
In the One Book One Pass selection, In My Time of Dying, a near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death-and what might follow. This book is part medical drama, part searing autobiography, and part rational inquiry into the ultimate unknowable mystery.
Copies of In My Time of Dying are available for check out at the Pass Christian Library or for purchase at Pass Christian Books. Please call the library (228-452-4596) or email passchristianlibrary@gmail.com if you have any questions or need further information. You can follow the One Book One Pass Program on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100067992191047).
