A Suitable Companion for the End of Your Life

Name: A Suitable Companion for the End of Your Life
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Robert McGill
ISBN: 9781770567467

Author: Robert McGill

Narrator: Marina Deltcheva

Unabridged: 6 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: ECW Press

Published: 06/30/2022

Categories: Fiction, Dystopian, Science Fiction, Absurdist

Synopsis

A bold and absurd new take on the dystopian plague novel, where people are treated like IKEA furniture Distraught and hopeless, an eighteen-year-old distance runner, Regan, decides to end her life. And she’ll do it through an unusual new method available only on the dark web. Enter Ülle, a woman with amnesia, who will, inadvertently, make Regan’s wish come true. Soon Ülle begins to remember her past and the outrageous steps her government took to combat a deadly pandemic of parasitic infections, which have brought her to this new country and to Regan’s house. Meanwhile, Regan might be changing her mind, and she finds herself more and more concerned about keeping both Ülle and herself alive. But the shadowy organization that brought them together wants to keep them both quiet – permanently. A Suitable Companion for the End of Your Life is a darkly comic dystopian tale that probes our anxieties around boundaries, whether territorial or bodily, and our fraught desire not to die alone.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Rebecca on July 17, 2022

This book is pretty complex--it's about an alternative timeline where people are sometimes rendered as flat-packs, the way inexpensive furniture is. Due to an error in the process, there's an off-gas that occurs when they are unpacked that can kill you, so a suicidal person who doesn't want to die a......more

Goodreads review by biz on February 26, 2025

this book had me hooked from its first few pages! the dystopian concept was interesting and it was executed really well, i wanted to keep reading to figure out what would happen to the characters. i thought that there were some inconsistencies in the explanation for why ülle, jari, and the baby didn......more

Goodreads review by Jane on July 24, 2022

Notes to myself to remember this book. Flatpacking. Ulli and Jari and baby. Mormor. Reagan. Lucinda, Paul. Itzy Hard to put down. Strange. Tkaronto. Immigration. Old world. New world. Plague.The worm. Life after death. Wanting to live, not wanting to live. Addiction, abandonment. Family. Survival.......more

Goodreads review by Jordan on July 15, 2024

I did end up really enjoying this book. More for the unique story and plot and landscape. Could not really get into the characters which was a bummer! Good light read!......more

Goodreads review by Anastacia on July 03, 2022

A sad dystopian novel about a young woman who wants to end her life, but not alone. Flatpacking is where people in a foreign country are shipped to Canada where people wish to die. It's a very selfish thing, but Regan learns that maybe there's a reason to live.......more