The Names We Keep

The Names We Keep

There is a thing moving through the world that does not destroy what it touches. It completes it. Takes the grief, the longing, the unresolved damage of a human life — and resolves it. The people who come through the other side are functional. They are peaceful. They remember nothing that hurt them. Nine people receive a message. They were not chosen for their strength. They were chosen because their particular wounds, their particular instruments, their particular ways of being insufficient — happen not to overlap. What follows is a record of what they carried. What they held onto. What it cost to hold on in a world that had found a way to make the holding unnecessary. The Names We Keep is a dark literary fantasy for readers who have ever kept something that the world told them would be easier to put down.