![]() ![]() ![]() The individual stories in Sequoia Nagamatsu’s debut novel are haunting: A scientist who could not save his own son experiments with donor pigs to produce organs for dying children a researcher studies how patients fall apart even as doctors race to keep them alive and intact lonely strangers meeting in virtual worlds a costumed attendant who secures infected children on the theme park’s roller coaster for one last ride before their hearts stop and an elegy hotel worker whose job is to cart bodies from bed to crematorium after families have curled up with the corpses of loved ones to say goodbye.īut Nagamatsu does not wallow in tragedy and loss. With this alarming start, How High We Go in the Dark takes readers across centuries and continents, beyond time and space, following the arc of an Arctic plague that punctures the lives of interconnected narrators. When archaeologist Dr Cliff Mayashiro arrives at the research outpost in 2030 to help finish his daughter’s work, a quarantine had just come into effect - standard protocol, he is told - because scientists there had reactivated viruses and bacteria in the melting permafrost. Climate researcher Clara had fallen to her death at the Batagaika Crater in Siberia shortly before discovering the 30,000-year-old remains of a young girl, believed to be the victim of an ancient virus. ![]()
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