Under the Whispering Door

A New York Times, USA Today, and Indie Bestseller — One of Buzzfeed's Best Books of 2022 — Locus Awards Top Ten Finalist

"A Man Called Ove meets The Good Place" — a queer love story about learning to live, even after death.

Welcome to Charon's Crossing. The tea is hot, the scones are fresh, and the dead are just passing through.

Wallace Price was not a good man. He was efficient, driven, and almost entirely alone — and then, rather inconveniently, he died. When a reaper arrives at his own funeral to collect him, Wallace begins to suspect something has gone wrong. When Hugo, the warm and enigmatic owner of a peculiar tea shop at the edge of the living world, offers to help him cross over, Wallace knows it for certain.

But Wallace isn't ready. Given one week before he must pass through the Whispering Door, he sets about doing what he never managed in life: actually living. And somewhere between Hugo's kindness, a found family of the living and the dead, and the strange magic of a place that exists between worlds, Wallace discovers what he was missing all along.

Hilarious, haunting, and quietly devastating, Under the Whispering Door is TJ Klune at his most tender — a story about the life we build when we finally stop running from it.

📖 Paperback | 384 pages