When a severely deformed corpse lands on his embalming table, skilled mortician, Horace Carver is forced to confront his apathy towards life and the dark secrets hidden within himself, his family, and his hometown of Always, Indiana. This novel is experimental in both form and content. It uses mythology as the base to tell a very contemporary story of how we interact with death. Set in a fictional town -- Always, Indiana -- the protagonist experiences life by tending to the dead. The novel also includes a very strange character in the form of the little sibling.