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An embalmer haunted by the death of his lover pulls apart his relationship and his funeral home to escape the pain of grief. Queer book club meets gothic horror in this debut novel from a former funeral professional.
Graham has built his life around the dead. He's a talented embalmer, the devoted director of his own funeral home, and the guiding hand behind a small but respected team. After a corpse-carried illness forces him to reckon with his own mortality, Graham struggles to confront the lingering pain of a recent loss. Grief, he finds, is not so easily diagnosed, dissected, and named. It is not so easily cured.
Betrayed by his body and unable to accept the pain death has caused him, Graham loses faith in his profession and the person he's become in its service. The past – which he imagines as a story of love and self-acceptance – becomes Graham's refuge. But in the present, influenced by increasingly gruesome visions of the deceased, Graham withdraws from his funeral home with devastating consequences for himself, his new girlfriend, and his colleagues. As his life, and even his sanity, starts to fragment, Graham struggles to rediscover the importance of his work and the history that haunts him before he loses everything and everyone close to him.
The Restorative Artist is a dissection of memory and embodiment, set against the morbid decadence—and sterilising secrecy—of the US funeral industry. Through Graham's confrontations with the spectre of his deceased lover, the horror of his work, and his uneasy relationship with his own transgender body, it dares to ask how anyone can continue in the face of loss.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Embalmer Graham Creer has spent his life helping others face loss, but when he's struck down by a corpse-carried illness, he is forced to confront his own mortality. Trapped convalescing in the apartment inside his funeral home, Graham is haunted by the dead resting in his basement mortuary and plagued by fevered visions of his recently deceased lover. Graham pulls apart his relationships, his funeral home, and his past in an attempt to escape the pain of grief, but who is he without the dead?A dissection of memory and mortality, The Restorative Artist is the debut novel from Cecil Fenn. Embalmer Graham Creer has spent his life helping others face loss, but when he's struck down by a corpse-carried illness, he is forced to confront his own mortality. Trapped convalescing inside his funeral home, plagued by visions of his recently deceased lover, Graham attempts to escape the pain of grief. But who is he without the dead? Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781916632240
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Paperback. Condition: New. Embalmer Graham Creer has spent his life helping others face loss, but when he's struck down by a corpse-carried illness, he is forced to confront his own mortality. Trapped convalescing in the apartment inside his funeral home, Graham is haunted by the dead resting in his basement mortuary and plagued by fevered visions of his recently deceased lover. Graham pulls apart his relationships, his funeral home, and his past in an attempt to escape the pain of grief, but who is he without the dead?A dissection of memory and mortality, The Restorative Artist is the debut novel from Cecil Fenn. Seller Inventory # LU-9781916632240
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