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For fans of Cloud Atlas and Sta tion 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&mdash\;a daring and deeply heartfelt work of mind-bending imagination from a singul ar new voice.
\nBeginning in 2030\, a grieving archeologist arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue the work of his recently deceased daughte r at the Batagaika crater\, where researchers are studying long-buried sec rets now revealed in melting permafrost\, including the perfectly preserve d remains of a girl who appears to have died of an ancient virus.
\nOnce unleashed\, the Arctic Plague will reshape life on earth for generati ons 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&mdash\;a pig&mdash\;develops the capacity for human speech. A widowed painter and her teenaged granddaught er embark on a cosmic quest to locate a new home planet.
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rary skyscrapers to hotels for the dead to interstellar starships\, Sequoi
a Nagamatsu takes readers on a wildly original and compassionate journey\,
spanning continents\, centuries\, and even celestial bodies to tell a sto
ry about the resiliency of the human spirit\, our infinite capacity to dre
am\, and the connective threads that tie us all together in the universe.<
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