As with his story collection Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone, a BuzzFeed Notable Book and Entropy Best Book, Nagamatsu blends literary and visionary verve in a narrative winning comparison to Cloud Atlas and Station Eleven.
There are funerary skyscrapers and hotels for the dead, interstellar starships (the better to find a safer place), and a theme park for terminally ill children where an employee falls for a mother desperate to hold her child one last time. The plague thus unleashed harries generations, as people find new ways to mourn.
Sequoia Nagamatsu Lauren B Photography In the near future. In 2030, archaeologists troweling through the Arctic Circle’s melting permafrost discover the well-preserved remains of a girl who evidently died of an ancient virus. Sequoia Nagamatsu’s moving and thought-provoking debut novel, How High We Go in the Dark, has an answer: with mourning.
LITERARYĪ product of more than 10 years’ labor, this novel will ring out sharply in today’s pandemic world. This is the set-up to Sequoia Nagamatsu ’s debut novel HOW HIGH WE GO IN THE DARK, which was penned before a real-world pandemic blew up the early twentieth-first century. Click here for additional new Prepub Alert columns
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