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MALAGASH

Joey Comeau

A precisely crafted, darkly humorous portrait of a family in mourning

Sunday's father is dying of cancer. They've come home to Malagash, on the north shore of Nova Scotia, so he can die where he grew up. Her mother and her brother are both devastated. But devastated isn't good enough. Devastated doesn't fix anything. Sunday has a plan.

She's started recording everything her father says. His boring stories. His stupid jokes. Everything. She's recording every single “I love you” right alongside every “Could we turn the heat up in here?” It's all important.

Because Sunday is writing a computer virus. A computer virus that will live secretly on the hard drives of millions of people all over the world. A computer virus that will think her father's thoughts and say her father's words. She has thousands of lines of code to write. Cryptography to understand. Exploits to test. She doesn't have time to be sad. Her father is going to live forever.

Joey Comeau is the author of four novels and the webcomic A Softer World. His work has been nominated for the ReLit and Shirley Jackson awards, has appeared in the Best American Non-Required Reading and the Guardian, has been profiled in Rolling Stone, and has recently been translated into French, Spanish, Turkish, and German.

MALAGASH
Deutsch von Tobias Reusswig
[HC Luftschacht 05/2021]
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Published 2017-10-01 by ECW Press

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Featured among "The most-anticipated books of the rest of 2017" Read more...

Known primarily for darkly comic novels and the webcomic A Softer World, Comeau effortlessly switches gears to expose the trauma, heartbreak, and humor in loss. ... an immensely touching tribute to a very human struggle with mortality. (starred review) Read more...

Recipient of an "Alex Award for the 10 best adult books that appeal to teen audiences", given by the American Library Association ALA Read more...

[A] sly and affecting novella . . . Mr. Comeau grasps a crucial truth that the most important characters in fiction about death are the survivors, and this book ends not with visions of the deluge but the promise of the rainbow sign. (WSJ Best New Fiction) Read more...