You've heard the phrase Life After Death before, often referring to some sort of afterlife, but Life After Life isn't about an afterlife—it's about a now life, a life that happens over and over again. The title, then, clues us into the central device in this book: rebirth. Fittingly, Ursula, our main character, doesn't even believe in an afterlife. She's kind of right and wrong—while she never experiences an afterlife, she does experience a life after life, which, depending on your beliefs, just might be the same thing. Either way, though, in this book life just keeps going, no matter how many times Ursula's rebooted.