A review by victoriafrombookclub
How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu

hopeful mysterious sad medium-paced

5.0

I immediately want to reread this book. Namagatsu skillfully creates a deep and complex near-world future with a virus leaking from an ancient burial beneath the melting Siberian ice. Each chapter brings you close to the grief and hope of characters dealing with the pandemic in the immediate aftermath and decades and generations after. A truly epic spec fic novel that points to the cosmos just as much to the human heart.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness, Grief, Death of parent, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Body horror, Cancer, Suicide, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Minor: Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Murder, and Pregnancy