The Catalog of Unfinished Deaths

Deep within an institution that exists in the doorways between life and what comes after, there is an archive of every death that was never quite completed—the drownings interrupted, the last words swallowed, the goodbyes that went unsaid. When a new clerk is assigned to catalog these unfinished endings, she discovers that one of the records is her own. The first book in The Threshold Archives, The Catalog of Unfinished Deaths is literary speculative fiction in the tradition of Borges and Ishiguro: a luminous, melancholy meditation on mortality, memory, and the bureaucracy of the soul. Dashiel Graves conjures a world both strange and achingly human, where to finish a death is to finally understand a life—and where the most dangerous file in the archive is the one with your name on it.