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Publisher: Carmela Maxell LLC
Pages: 358
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The dead are at peace.
This is the first lie.
In a society where grief has been regulated and remembrance is rationed, death is no longer an ending.
It is an administrative function.
Citizens earn brief reunions with their deceased loved ones through a government-sanctioned bereavement recall program-a privilege granted only through obedience, labor, and emotional compliance. Mourning is no longer a right. It is something to be earned, monitored, and revoked.
For Daniel Vale, grief has become a full-time occupation.
After the death of his wife, Evelyn, Daniel devotes his life to navigating a system designed to monetize loss. He works, waits, sacrifices, and surrenders pieces of himself for the chance to see her again-even if only for a moment.
But the system was never built to comfort the living.
It was built to consume them.
As Daniel fights to preserve his family's memories, his young daughter Mara grows up learning that sorrow must be hidden, hope is dangerous, and love can exist only within the limits imposed by the state.
Meanwhile, Evelyn discovers that death has offered no peace at all.
Recalled into service by the very institution that commodified her memory, she exists somewhere between personhood and property-her identity carefully managed, her memories quietly erased. But memory is stubborn. And the truth has a way of surviving even the most carefully constructed lies.
As the cracks begin to spread through a society built on regulated grief, one family must decide whether love is worth defying the very system that claims to protect them.
Because remembrance has a cost.
And the most dangerous systems are often the ones that disguise control as compassion.
Bereavement is a haunting literary dystopian novel exploring grief, memory, identity, bureaucracy, and the enduring power of love. Perfect for readers who enjoy emotionally driven speculative fiction that asks difficult questions about humanity, sacrifice, and what remains of us when even our deepest emotions are placed under government control.
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