Charon's Crossing Tea Shop is a way station on the path of death. Hugo, a ferryman, owns the shop. He serves tea and baked goods to the locals and works with the dead the help them process their lives and death so they may move on.
Mei is a reaper, collecting people after their death and bringing them to the tea shop.
Nelson is an old man / ghost who lives at the tea shop - allowed to stay to help emotionally support Hugo.
Wallace Price, a lawyer who dies of a heart attack, is found by Mei at his funeral. Almost no one else is in attendance. He was a man who turned off his emotions other than annoyance.
Hugo, Mei and Nelson will have their hands full with Wallace. But it is never too late to grow as a person.
Klune has written a wonderful book that looks at death with love and humor. Everyone should read this.
Klune, TJ. (2021). Under the Whispering Door. New York: Tor.
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