Literary fiction
Innocent Spider
A colleague vanishes from the hospital roster. The remaining staff still have patients to care for.
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About the book
At a teaching hospital, a colleague vanishes from the roster while the patients, forms, and overnight decisions remain. An associate professor and Salma inherit the work in increments too small to qualify as a crisis. Each task is reasonable. Together they alter the shape of every life touching the ward.
Then an audit arrives, searching for measurable responsibility. It can count hours, outputs, and deviations. It cannot easily account for the invisible exchanges by which care has continued.
Innocent Spider is a precise novel about medicine, workload, complicity, and the fragile human network institutions rely upon while pretending it does not exist.
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Published by Studio Mamalys. Written in English.
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About the author
Kent Natal Moreau writes literary fiction about care, language, institutional power, and the distance between a human life and its official record.