Summarized

On his deathbed, George expects the usual answers: nothing, transcendence, or a neural fade into silence. Instead, he is pulled into the Stack, an afterlife archive where memories are stripped down, categorized, and compressed into universal concepts. There, his daughter becomes "e;affiliation,"e; his wife becomes "e;the beloved,"e; and the warm yellow of a picnic blanket is treated as dead weight.As George is forced deeper into the Archive's logic, he learns that the universe does not preserve lives as they were lived. It consumes them. Joined by other corrupted souls and opposed by the coldly rational Logician, George must decide whether to accept perfect summary or fight for the ugly, irreducible details that made him who he was.Part philosophical science fiction, part metaphysical thriller, this is a story about memory, identity, grief, and the cost of being understood too well.