![]() ![]() With such great loss of life, a surviving generation is left with no family, no sense of purpose, no mentorship, unmoored from history and meaning. Starting from the kernel of a story, the discovery of an ancient corpse in the melting permafrost of Siberia, unleashing a long-frozen virus upon mankind, we assume the first person perspectives of a series of individuals trying to live their life in their part of the world, with their personal losses, as time marches forward and the virus takes a huge number of victims. ![]() While this series of interlocking links of stories chained together leading slowly, then quickly into the future, addresses various aspects of culture, psychological effects of grief, and generational change as a result of the loss of huge numbers of people, Nagamatsu rockets beyond even these considerations to humanity as a whole, the trajectory of our entire story. To view this as a pandemic novel is to take a too limited view of all Nagamatsu attempts here. ![]()
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