Hilda Graff
ASIN: B00CLWQ1MQ
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 275
Payton Cary is a university senior, known for his prowess on the basketball court. When he dies suddenly, the 22-year-old decides to remain with his body in an effort to return to his family. This involves observing his own autopsy, watching as his body is embalmed and prepared for burial, and then setting out on the 800-mile flight back to his hometown.Surprisingly, the experience proves cathartic, as he gradually disassociates from the lifeless form.Present, then, when his parents and two younger brothers arrive at the local funeral to view his body, Payton is nearly destroyed by all he sees and hears. His only hope lies in finding someone who can see him, hear him, and validate his existence.That ‘someone,’ though, has spent the past ten years avoiding the dead, at all costs, and though this beautiful woman is moved to make an exception, in Payton’s case, neither of these young ...