Zero K : a novel
(Book)

Jeffrey Lockhart, the book's narrator, is astonished by the concept of life after death that his father espouses. Ross Lockhart is in his 60s, with a younger wife, Artis, whose health is failing. Ross is the primary investor in a remote and secret compound where death is exquisitely controlled and bodies are preserved until a future time when biomedical advances and new technologies can return them to a life of transcendent promise. "We are born without choosing to be. Should we have to die in the same manner? Isn't it a human glory to refuse to accept a certain fate?" These are the questions that haunt this novel and its memorable characters. [From publisher's description]