Sheila Heti

But how does she know if she has been changed, or if she just so much wants to be changed that since it happened, she has been pretending?

while he, who had always defied convention, had come back to life to show her that it was just social norms that kept other people in their graves.

She had thought that when someone died, it would be like they went into a different room. She had not known that life itself transformed into a different room, and trapped you in it without them.