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Bloomsbury presents How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu read by Jason Culp Stephanie Komure Micky Shiloah Joe Knezevich Brianna Ishibashi Kotaro Watanabe Matthew Bridges Kurt Kanazawa Greg Watanabe Jeanne Sakata MacLeod Andrews Keisuke Hoashi Brian Nishii and Julia Whelan

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For fans of Cloud Atlas and Station Eleven Sequoia Nagamatsus debut is a wildly imaginative genrebending work spanning generations across the globe as humanity struggles to rebuild itself in the aftermath of a climate plague

Haunting and luminous An astonishing debut Alan Moore creator of Watchmen and V for Vendetta

A powerfully moving and thought provoking read At times sublime strange and deeply human Adrian Tchaikovsky bestselling author of the Children of Time series

Dr Cliff Miyashiro arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue his recently deceased daughters research only to discover a virus newly unearthed from melting permafrost The plague unleashed reshapes life on earth for generations Yet even while struggling to counter this destructive force humanity stubbornly persists in myriad moving and ever inventive ways

Among those adjusting to this new normal are an aspiring comedian employed by a theme park designed for terminally ill children who falls in love with a mother trying desperately to keep her son alive a scientist who having failed to save his own son from the plague gets a second chance at fatherhood when one of his test subjectsa pigdevelops human speech a man who after recovering from his own coma plans a block party for his neighbours who have also woken up to find that they alone have survived their families and a widowed painter and her teenaged granddaughter who must set off on cosmic quest to locate a new home planet

From funerary skyscrapers to hotels for the dead How High We Go in the Dark follows a cast of intricately linked characters spanning hundreds of years as humanity endeavours to restore the delicate balance of the world This is a story of unshakable hope that crosses literary lines to give us a world rebuilding itself through an endless capacity for love resilience and reinvention

Wonderful and disquieting dreamlike and all too possible How High We Go in the Dark reaches far beyond our stars while its heart remains rooted to Earth and reminds us that our wellbeing depends on the wellbeing of our world Samantha Shannon author of The Priory of the Orange Tree