CONSUMABLES

Ione Sarett thought her daughter's final journey had ended with an urn.Years after Miren donated her body to medical education and research, a routine archival notice suggests otherwise. Somewhere inside a network of hospitals, laboratories, research programs, databases, and institutional records, pieces of Miren's biological and informational legacy may still exist - and may still be in use.Independent auditor Carys Quillan is hired to investigate what appears to be a simple records discrepancy. Instead, she uncovers a system in which every individual decision can be technically defensible while the whole becomes something no one consciously authorized.A specimen becomes a slide. A slide becomes an image. An image becomes data. Data becomes research. Research becomes clinical knowledge.At what point does consent end?As Ione demands to know what actually happened to her daughter, Carys follows a trail of conflicting identifiers, forgotten restrictions, derivative materials, institutional assumptions, and records that have outlived the purposes that created them.CONSUMABLES is a tense literary and institutional thriller about consent, ownership, medical research, grief, and the dangerous distance between what a system can legally retain and what a person ever agreed to become.