Under the Whispering Door

There, given a few days before he must step through the titular door, Wallace is gently, stubbornly taught how to be human by the shop's kind ferryman, Hugo, and its lovable staff of the living and the lingering.

TJ Klune, following his hit The House in the Cerulean Sea, writes another warm, openhearted fable, this time about grief, regret and second chances, laced with humor and a tender queer romance that blooms across the boundary of death. Sentimental by design, it makes no apology for wanting to comfort; readers seeking edge should look elsewhere, but those who want a hug of a book will be moved.