The Grief Shop: and other stories from a broken world

From the author of Transmutation comes a linked collection of speculative short fiction that follows a woman navigating surreal jobs in a near-future dystopia, in which people have become completely numb to their emotions following a cataclysmic event.

How do you tell the story of being human in an unfeeling world?

After an unnamed tragedy renders humanity numb, Gemma must wrestle with the void of indifference. She works a series of jobs—at a grief-infused coffee shop, a boxing gym for pain t...