How High We Go in the Dark, Sequoia Nagamatsu
How High We Go in the Dark, Sequoia Nagamatsu
11 Rating(s)
List: $27.99 | Sale: $19.59
Club: $13.99

How High We Go in the Dark
A Novel

Author: Sequoia Nagamatsu

Narrator: Julia Whelan, Brian Nishii, Keisuke Hoashi, MacLeod Andrews, Jeanne Sakata, Greg Watanabe, Kurt Kanazawa, Matthew Bridges, Kotaro Watanabe, Brianna Ishibashi, Joe Knezevich, Micky Shiloah, Stephanie Komure, Jason Culp

Unabridged: 15 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 01/18/2022


Synopsis

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • ROXANE GAY'S AUDACIOUS BOOK CLUB PICK • FINALIST FOR THE URSULA K. LE GUIN PRIZE""Moving and thought-provoking . . . offering psychological insights in lyrical prose while seriously exploring speculative conceits."" — New York Times Book Review""Haunting and luminous . . . Beautiful and lucid science fiction. An astonishing debut.""  — Alan Moore, creator of Watchmen and V for VendettaRecommended by New York Times Book Review • Los Angeles Times • NPR • Washington Post • Wall Street Journal • Entertainment Weekly • Esquire • Good Housekeeping • NBC News • Buzzfeed • Goodreads • The Millions • The Philadelphia Inquirer • Minneapolis Star-Tribune • San Francisco Chronicle • The Guardian • and many more!For fans of Cloud Atlas and Station Eleven, a spellbinding and profoundly prescient debut that follows a cast of intricately linked characters over hundreds of years as humanity struggles to rebuild itself in the aftermath of a climate plague—a daring and deeply heartfelt work of mind-bending imagination from a singular new voice. In 2030, a grieving archeologist arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue the work of his recently deceased daughter at the Batagaika Crater, where researchers are studying long-buried secrets now revealed in melting permafrost, including the perfectly preserved remains of a girl who appears to have died of an ancient virus.Once unleashed, the Arctic plague will reshape life on Earth for generations to come, quickly traversing the globe, forcing humanity to devise a myriad of moving and inventive ways to embrace possibility in the face of tragedy. In a theme park designed for terminally ill children, a cynical employee falls in love with a mother desperate to hold on to her infected son. A heartbroken scientist searching for a cure finds a second chance at fatherhood when one of his test subjects—a pig—develops the capacity for human speech. A widowed painter and her teenaged granddaughter embark on a cosmic quest to locate a new home planet. From funerary skyscrapers to hotels for the dead to interstellar starships, Sequoia Nagamatsu takes readers on a wildly original and compassionate journey, spanning continents, centuries, and even celestial bodies to tell a story about the resilience of the human spirit, our infinite capacity to dream, and the connective threads that tie us all together in the universe.""Wondrous, and not just in the feats of imagination, which are so numerous it makes me dizzy to recall them, but also in the humanity and tenderness with which Sequoia Nagamatsu helps us navigate this landscape. . . . This is a truly amazing book, one to keep close as we imagine the uncertain future.""  — Kevin Wilson, New York Times bestselling author of Nothing to See Here

About Sequoia Nagamatsu

Sequoia Nagamatsu is a Japanese-American writer and managing editor of Psychopomp Magazine, an online quarterly dedicated to innovative prose. Originally from Hawaii and the San Francisco Bay Area, he holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Southern Illinois University and a BA in Anthropology from Grinnell College. His work has appeared in such publications as Conjunctions, The Southern Review, ZYZZYVA, Fairy Tale Review, and Tin House. He is the author of the award-winning short story collection Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone and teaches creative writing at St. Olaf College and the Rainier Writing Workshop Low-Residency MFA program. He currently lives in Minnesota with his wife, cat, and a robot dog named Calvino.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Roxane on January 23, 2022

An ambitious and intricate novel in stories about the ways everything in our world... no, our universe, are intimately connected. At the outset, scientists in Siberia are trying to determine whether newly uncovered organisms will cause harm to the human race, and from there, we see how a global plag......more

Goodreads review by luce (cry bebè's back from hiatus) on January 13, 2025

Lacklustreand monotonous, not only did How High We Go in the Darkfail to grip my attention but it also failed to elicit an emotional response on my part. It was a blandand repetitive affair, which is a pity given the hype around it. It didn’t help that a few weeks ago I read another ‘Cloud Atlas-......more

Goodreads review by Emily on July 13, 2023

There's something so compelling about the writing of this book. This (almost?) short story collection makes for a unique post apocalyptic book. Totally recommend!......more

Goodreads review by Jenny on December 16, 2021

This is a fucking heavy book. Desolate and sad, but also ambitious and lightly insane. Talking pigs, roller coaster euthanasia machines for children, generational trauma. I suspect this will be a book that gets a lot of attention and it should, but read it in a good frame of mind because it can be q......more

Goodreads review by zuza_zaksiazkowane on November 05, 2024

Ostatnie opowiadanie zniszczyło mi mózg xd Nie będzie to mój ulubieniec, bo żałuję nieco, że taka została tu wybrana forma. Niektóre opowiadania są wybitne, ale inne zostawiły mnie z krzywą miną albo niedosytem. Co nie zmienia faktu, że to jest bardzo, bardzo ciekawa książka, która wzbudziła we mnie......more