The Dead Living: A Novel About Depression, Spirits, and the Miracle of Being Alive

Tony Smith is still alive.

That's the problem.

Drowning beneath child support payments, overdue bills, emotional exhaustion, and the quiet shame of feeling disconnected from his own life, Tony has slowly become a ghost long before death ever arrives.

Then one night, in a moment of hopelessness, he says something he should never have said out loud:

"If the dead want life so bad... take mine."

Something hears him.

What begins as emotional collapse becomes a supernatural exchange between Tony and El...