A sharp, unsettling debut from a former funeral professional who knows death inside out.

Embalmer Graham Creer has spent his life helping others face loss, but when he's struck down by a corpse-carried illness, he is forced to confront his own mortality. Trapped convalescing in the apartment inside his funeral home, Graham is haunted by the dead resting in his basement mortuary and plagued by fevered visions of his recently deceased lover. Graham pulls apart his relationships, his funeral home, and his past in an attempt to escape the pain of grief, but who is he without the dead?

A dissection of memory and mortality, The Restorative Artist is the debut novel from Cecil Fenn.