EGO DEATH
by Vaultkeeper
About the book
The Proxy is paid to become other people. A missing son for an ageing mother. A dead husband for a widow. A father who will never give the apology his daughter needs. He studies photographs, memories, habits and failures until, for a few hours, he can give someone back the person they lost. Then David Vale makes an unusual request: he wants a week off being David. Seven days. His house. His routines. His family. His relationships. The Proxy steps into the life and discovers something uncomfortable: he may be better at being David than David ever was. And when the week ends, the boundaries do not return with it. Darkly funny, unsettling and painfully human, EGO DEATH is a psychological thriller about identity, performance, responsibility and the stories people construct in order to live with themselves.
What to expect
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Available as an ebook and in paperback. Paperback ISBN 9798172771651.
About the author
Vaultkeeper writes fiction about the things we build our lives around — identity, certainty, meaning, ambition, faith, power and love — and what happens when they stop being true. Blending psychological fiction, cosmic horror, hard science and existential philosophy, his work puts ordinary people into situations that force them to confront uncomfortable truths about themselves and the world around them. His stories treat humanity as fragile rather than inevitable. There are no heroes here, only people trying to understand what is happening before there is nothing left to understand.
