More, it was just a stunning piece of speculative fiction, superbly crafted and written. HOW HIGH WE GO IN THE DARK landed in my lap, as it did for many readers, at the height of COVID and provided me a cathartic experience I desperately needed. The book is a meditation on grief, collective trauma, our species’ misplaced priorities, and, most of all, the sustaining and ultimately transformative power of hope when despair and surrender make more sense. This is the set-up to Sequoia Nagamatsu’s debut novel HOW HIGH WE GO IN THE DARK, which was penned before a real-world pandemic blew up the early twentieth-first century. The mummified remains of an early human child are discovered when global warming releases it from its permafrost tomb…a pathogen lying in wait inside the mummy’s brain is released…an Arctic Plague quickly spreads, mutating human organs, producing strange glowing constellations under our skin, and killing tens of millions.
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