Robert L. Dean Jr. has crafted a flawless meditation on mortality and aging. Rife with allusions to film and classical literature, death is not denied its twisted horrors but made beautiful in its reality. Dean weaves the threads of a life before severing them for all to see, to read, and to mourn.

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