As the melancholy and eerie story unfolds, Quinlan realizes that no one is telling her the truth, and her life has never been her own. Catalina’s boyfriend, Isaac, is included in the assignment, and Quinlan, her own loneliness heightened by his need, finds herself drawn to Isaac’s desperation and passion. She becomes Catalina, a beloved daughter who died of mysterious causes. Her latest assignment requires deeper immersion than ever before, and her father is secretive about the details. Quinlan is driven both by compassion to help the despairing and pressure from her father, who is the head of the grief department. Having had this job since she was a child, 17-year-old Quinlan is starting to feel hairline fissures in her psyche, finding it increasingly difficult to recall her own personality. Working for an elite government program, Quinlan is a “closer.” She enters the lives of the bereaved and temporarily plays the role of the deceased in order to bring closure to the grief-stricken. Quinlan has an uncanny ability to become someone else, especially if that person is dead.
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