For fans of Cloud Atlas and Station Eleven, Sequoia Nagamatsu's debut is a wildly imaginative, genre-bending work spanning generations across the globe as humanity struggles to rebuild itself in the aftermath of a devastating plague.
Sequoia Nagamatsu is a Japanese-American writer and managing editor of Psychopomp Magazine, 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 Conjunctions, The Southern Review, ZYZZYVA, Fairy Tale Review, and Tin House. He is the author of the award-winning short story collection Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone 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.
Gorgeous, terrifying, compassionate. With funerary skyscrapers, a
generation ship painted with history, and a pyramid of souls
reaching for light, How High We Go in the Dark is both
powerful and original. Nagamastu elegantly dissects disaster with
an eye toward empathy and curiosity. At this book's center is a
great big beautiful heart. An exceptional accomplishment that left
me equal parts hope and wonder * Erika Swyler, author of Light From
Other Stars and The Book of Speculation *
A book of incredible scope and ambition, a polyphonic elegy for the
possible, for all that might be won and lost in the many worlds we
make together: the world of our families, our civilization and our
planet, the planets beyond. Sequoia Nagamatsu's debut generates
fresh wonder at all we are, plus hope for all we might become, in
these unforgettable futures yet to be * Matt Bell, author of
Appleseed *
You can try to compare Sequoia Nagamatsu to George Saunders or
Charlie Kaufman or David Mitchell, but his is a singular voice and
this is a book so original and wondrous and reality-shredding that
it defies easy summary or categorization, like a dream that feels
more vivid than life. It's brave and prescient, completely bananas
and yet absolutely moving, packed with humor and heart. I loved it
* Benjamin Percy, author of Ninth Metal, Red Moon, and Thrill Me,
and writer of X-Force and Wolverine for Marvel Comics *
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