In a speculative American future, an app LIV makes it possible to own a human corpse as a companion. While “living with The Dead” becomes a sensation across the country, founder Auden, Auden’s stepsister, Mara, and funder Tom, grapple with their lives and decisions as the reality of the country becomes increasingly morbid and bleak.  Through third-person narration, we see LIVs trials unfold— Auden is a strange man with gruesome interests in embalming who is set in changing th

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Review of Alice Martin's debut novel, Westward Women. This is a literary fiction book set in a spectulative 1973.

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