Under the Whispering Door

This poignant queer love story from TJ Klune follows Wallace, a man who's beginning to suspect that he might be dead. The author describes it as his take on a Christmas carol with Wallace Price playing the role of Ebenezer Scrooge. Intriguing, right? Before he died, Wallace had grown into a pretty terrible man. When he dies, he's not taken straight to the afterlife but instead to a peculiar tea shop that serves as a sort of waystation between worlds. In that tea shop Wallace is given a choice, if he decides to take it: now that he's dead, he can finally learn to live and make the most of the "life" he has now. Whimsical, weird, and touching, this is a book about love and loss, about grief and what it does to people, and ultimately, about hope.