Strap in for highs and lows with the pandemic novel 'How High We Go in the Dark'
One character is an aimless young man works at a euthanasia theme park for terminally ill kids, placing them on the roller coaster that will kill them before the plague does. It is a book about death.
by Natalie Zutter
Jan 28, 2022
3 minutes
How High We Go in the Dark, Sequoia Nagamatsu's debut novel about a climate change virus in 2030 that alters humanity centuries into the future, could hit all too hard for those grieving the loss of loved ones to coronavirus, as well as the loss of their former lives pre-pandemic.
The book has drawn comparisons to Emily St. John Mandel's pandemic tale , but at least the latter is mostly about a performance troupe thriving in the hopeful post-apocalypse. Nagamatsu's collection of
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