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How High We Go in the Dark

Auteur(s): Sequoia Nagamatsu
Narrateur(s): 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
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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 Vendetta

Recommended by New York Times Book Review Los Angeles TimesNPRWashington Post Wall Street Journal Entertainment Weekly • Esquire Good Housekeeping NBC NewsBuzzfeed • Goodreads The MillionsThe Philadelphia Inquirer • Minneapolis Star-Tribune • San Francisco Chronicle • The Guardianand 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 listeners 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

©2022 Sequoia Nagamatsu (P)2022 HarperCollins Publishers

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Beautiful story

This book weaves different stories together through time, leaving little Easter eggs for the reader to find. The readers were excellent and I would recommend this book everyone.

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Nuanced

A complex, nuanced book that weaves the stories of many individuals together over time and major events. I suspect there are even more links between each story than can be gathered on a single read.
There is tenderness, love, hope, and humanity; the loss of one star is for the heavy weighting of melancholy and the odd story I simply didn’t relate to well; a few are so powerful they brought me to tears (Pig son), and some so imaginative I couldn’t stop listening.
Overall: worth the read

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Unexpectedly good listen.

I found this story that I often couldn't wait to take the time to listen to.

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How Humans Cope

January 2022 | 4/5
In the near future, an archaeologist takes up his recently deceased daughters job in an Arctic dig. They have uncovered the thawing remains of an ancient homo sapiens like, female in the permafrost, that unleashes a plague that sweeps the globe.

The novel then looks at individual stories from a cast of characters, spanning centuries, that show how humanity has suffered, with a pinch of hope.

A first person narrative is used giving each story a unique voice, though the stories do bleed into each other, and we have a few repeat characters.

As I was reading, I couldn't help but feel these were once short stories (they were), knitted together for a novel length book. It works and it doesn't. The connections are loose at times, and the stories can feel - distant. But overall well done.

It was an interesting read, dark, with a glimmer of light. If you're worried about climate change, pandemics, and mutants, Nagamatsu has it covered.

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Pandemic Porn

Not for me at all. Super graphic and also the suspension of disbelief required in terms of how this pandemic operates is too much. Not much of a cohesive narrative.

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Not for me

Intro and outro are pretty interesting with some flickers of greatness in the middle. But overall pretty disjointed and unsatisfying.
Might just not be the right category as there isnt much "space conquest" but some rather poetic and at times random forays into the human condition.
Delivery doesn't help at all either.

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Pretty boring

Very monotone and boring narration. The story did not keep me captivated at all. Disappointing.

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Amazing character story

This is a deep dive into the lives of several individuals that is beautifully written with fantastical situations. One of my favourites.

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Mostly just disapoonting

Not sure what the fuss is about. Just a sand and depressing book offering nothing new. Lifeless performance to go along.

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Incredible

This was one of the best audio books I’ve ever listened to. The story itself, an incredible science fiction tale, was so good. I love the different stories that span time, how there are little seeds planted to tie certain stories to the narrative. So well done. Highly recommend.

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  • KJH
  • 2022-03-16

Should come with a sadness warning

Wow, this one was depressing. Extremely well written but very depressing. If you have suffered during this crazy pandemic, this book about the after affects from the "Arctic Plague" may not be the book for you. It is basically about how we as individuals, communities and the earth would deal with loss, grief, and death following a life as we know it altering plague.
These themes are told through a series of stories, some better than others, with strings connecting the lives of the characters told within. There is also a bit of science fiction as the stories go farther and farther through time and even space. Overall, an engrossing read but I did have problems with some of the narrators who might have been amateurs and sounded as if they were reading right from the book. Give it a try but heed my sadness warning. If you don't get a lump in your throat or a tear in your eye listing to the "Pig Son" story, you need to check your heart.

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  • 2022-03-14

This Was A Great Listen

I finished the brief eternity The Terror by Dan Simmons and it’s a good book with a problematic ending and a terrible narrator. How High We Go In The Dark was an antidote. All but one narrator is excellent with one slightly over dramatic segment that was still very well read. The prose is wonderful, full of small and grand insights about connection in a time of trial and terrible strife.

This is a connecting series of stories that build a narrative about grief, puzzlement, and extraordinary sadness. It features a pandemic at a juncture with climate based collapse. There are elements of science fiction and a couple of segments that reminded me of Cloud Cuckoo Land although I preferred How High…. and it’s execution. Particularly, I appreciated the book’s coping strategy of commodification of death. It was hard at first hearing it but ends up being a blessing to some of the book’s characters.

Sadly, there will be team republicans that will see this book as another woke snowflake manifesto (it is not) while team democrats will feel emboldened (which they shouldn’t.) I would say both political takes on the themes would be wrong and ironic as part of the book is about how communication between us breaks down as stressors build.

The early stages of the book were rough for me. While not about or similar to Covid19 the underlying feelings are there. Most of us have lost friends or family or suffered the isolation and uncertainty a pandemic brings. The book was intense and I almost DNF’d. Thankfully I continued and was rewarded with a good tale that, sadness infused, held out hope and redemption.

A very well written book that deserves peoples attention.

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  • KB
  • 2022-02-26

Is there a singularity in my head?

What is happening? Are we human or are we dancer? The end sort of but not really brings things together which I guess might be the point. I enjoyed the narration, especially from a non-white perspective, and I very much respect the creativity of the story; it just didn’t come together for me in the way that I had hoped.

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  • Beverly Erwin
  • 2022-03-14

Amazing!

I can highly recommend this novel, even if you are not a fan of dystopian tales or science-fiction. This humanity is blindingly beautiful and horrifically sad.

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  • Amazon Customer
  • 2022-01-26

I don't know

jumps around a lot going from chapter to chapter doesn't really make much sense the end tries to tie it all together kind of does kind of doesn't and then it's over and you're like what?

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  • K. W
  • 2022-02-01

Trippy

Wild sci fi ride! Each chapter it’s own short story and wrapped up into a bow in the end. Super imaginative, a little frightening and very trippy! Not usually my genre but thoroughly enjoyed this book

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  • TMSOD
  • 2022-03-07

Entirety Different

This book appeared in my Audible Library. I do not remember purchasing it. The story that unfolds in many voices as the book is recited make the listening experience fascinating.

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  • Mary C Bartel
  • 2022-02-20

a deft exploration of existence and relationships

while some of the narration was a bit stiff this beautifully written series of interconnected stories takes the reader on journey what it means to find love and how far you may be willing to go to hold on to it. be it romantic, familial, or friendship, looking at these bonds through the rise duration and aftermath of a plague is extremely poignant as you watch characters grow and develop as circumstances eddy around them. i wasn’t sure what to expect but i absolutely loved it. highly recommended. a very hopeful book.

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  • Gregory Gooch
  • 2022-02-09

Thought provoking and timely

Sequoia Nagamatsu has created a world from start to finish but in a nonlinear way to expand on creation and exploration from now to the deist any future and back to creation itself. Exceptionally well narrated and I greatly enjoyed the multiple voices which help to flesh out each character. Looking forward to more!

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  • Anonymous User
  • 2022-01-25

wonderful

I enjoyed every moment of this thought provoking story. any more available from author ?

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