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How High We Go in the Dark

Sequoia Nagamatsu

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Why we're reading this: Follows a cast of intricately linked characters over generations as humanity reimagines life, community, …more
[close] Follows a cast of intricately linked characters over generations as humanity reimagines life, community, memory, and grief in the after of climate plague. Literary Speculative. For fans of Station Eleven, Cloud Atlas, Ted Chiang, and George Saunders.

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Mar 21, 2023 Todd rated it it was amazing

Shelves: literature, science-fiction

How High We Go in the Dark is an amazing read. This is a non-linear narrative with multiple first-person narrators. Each chapter is a separate, but interrelated narrative that the author manages with great finesse. The novel starts out interestingly enough as a grieving father and scientist travels to his late daughter's Siberian research facility. In the thawing permafrost, the remains of an ancient girl are found where there should be no signs of humanity. It is there that an ancient virus tha ...more

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May 17, 2022 Amy rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: plague, 2022-books-read, science-fiction

This is simultaneously a beautiful and painful piece of literature. Every chapter is something new and surprising. However, every chapter explores different facets of death. At first, I was intrigued and captivated by the author's imagination. But it eventually just became too much. Of course, we all die, but we don't want to think about it. And I don't mind thinking about death, but I apparently have my limits. The chapter on assisted suicides for pandemic-afflicted children was definitely a ro ...more

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