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A review by bexellency
How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
2.0
Not what I expected and for me it started strong and just got weird. Barely a novel. Better described as interrelated short stories. (Something I’d missed when reading the synopsis.). Although each without the snap and ending of a good short story. I liked some of the early ones best - 30,000 Years Beneath a Eulogy, City of Laughter, Elegy Hotel. I didn’t find a pig Son as memorable as other readers (had forgotten it until I was reading the end material author interview). Things got weird for me in a life Around the Event Horizon - a singularity in his head, what does that even mean? Both confusing and made me feel the way “films” do, like somehow I’m not smart enough to get it. And while I might have liked a couple stories after that (Meloncholy Nights, Grave Friends) the level of weird stayed high (Before You Melt Into the Sea) and I just wanted to be done reading. So not a book of speculative fiction I had expected from my apparently poor and incomplete reading of the blurb. Rather a book about grief. And I reject the Station Eleven comparison, as I loved that book.