{"product_id":"how-high-we-go-in-the-pb","title":"How High We Go in the Dark","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFor fans of Cloud Atlas and Station Eleven, a spellbinding and profoundly prescient work of literary science fiction 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. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Haunting and luminous . . . Beautiful and lucid science fiction. An astonishing debut.\"\u003c\/b\u003e --Alan Moore, creator of Watchmen and V for Vendetta\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOnce 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom funerary skyscrapers to hotels for the dead to interstellar starships, Sequoia Nagamatsu takes readers on a wildly original and compassionate journey of interconnected stories, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSequoia Nagamatsu\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Japanese-American writer and managing editor of \u003cem\u003ePsychopomp Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, 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 \u003cem\u003eConjunctions, The Southern Review, ZYZZYVA, Fairy Tale Review, \u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eTin House\u003c\/em\u003e. He is the author of the award-winning short story collection \u003cem\u003eWhere We Go When All We Were Is Gone\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sequoia Nagamatsu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46712387240221,"sku":"9780063072657","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9780063072657.jpg?v=1705255835","url":"https:\/\/staging.anovelideaphilly.com\/products\/how-high-we-go-in-the-pb","provider":"A Novel Idea on Passyunk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}