The Book of Selected Tears

By Stephen S Ritter and Dr. James Orr

When a package arrives on an unremarkable Tuesday - no return address, an autopsy report inside - a writer between projects begins collecting. What accumulates is an archive of encounters: a marine biologist who followed whale song to the bottom of the Pacific and didn't come back; a Victorian village that walked into a light on the headland wearing their good shoes; a classified report on a region of the universe where the oldest light simply isn't there. Six entities. One condition. A shape that language has been circling for fourteen thousand years without quite being able to name.

The Book of Selected Tears is a novel assembled from the documents people leave behind when something finds them - and the account of the woman who read every one and went to find it anyway.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GTRHJKGB
• ISBN13: 9798295728358
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Eggmcnoggin Books
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"