The Empire of the Dead
Daugherty, Tracy In the spare and deliberate stories in The Empire of the Dead, through situations both comic and bluntly melancholy, the future remains open for people-but at an indeterminate cost. Daily, characters weigh their indecision against the consequences of choice.
Through a series of five linked stories, we meet Bern, a New York City architect yearning for a return to "first principles"-the "initial euphoria, the falling-in-love" that led him to co...