![]() ![]() In some ways, this book functions like a group of interconnected short stories. By following the many lives of a number of linked individuals across hundreds of years we see the way our society splits apart, comes back together and grieves for what is lost. The novel opens with the discovery of the preserved remains of a prehistoric girl who is found amidst the melting permafrost in the Arctic Circle and, with her, a deadly virus is reintroduced into human civilization. But these are issues which Sequoia Nagamatsu movingly examines on many different individual human levels within his imaginative and absorbing debut “How High We Go In The Dark”. Similarly, it's difficult to predict how an ongoing pandemic and environmental crisis will shape our society's future. ![]() It's impossible to know how we'll react to losing a loved one until it happens. ![]()
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