Robert Mcgill Unisex Multicolor A Suitable Companion For The End Of Your Life Paperback Book

Robert McGill

2022 QUILL & QUIRE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE 30TH ANNUAL HAMILTON LITERARY FICTION AWARDA bold and absurd new take on the dystopian plague novel, where people are treated like IKEA furnitureDistraught and hopeless, an eighteenyearold distance runner, Regan, decides to end her life. And shell do it through an unusual new method available only on the dark web. Enter lle, a woman with amnesia, who will, inadvertently, make Regans wish come true. But lle begins to remember her past and the outrageous steps her government took to combat a deadly pandemic of parasitic infections, which have brought her to this new country and to Regans house. Meanwhile, Regan might be changing her mind, and she finds herself more and more concerned about keeping both lle and herself alive. But the shadowy organization that brought them together wants to keep them both quiet permanently. A Suitable Companion for the End of Your Life is a darkly comic dystopian tale that probes our anxieties around boundaries, whether territorial or bodily, and our fraught desire not to die alone."Gripping from the first page, Robert McGills A Suitable Companion for the End of Your Life is a dark, speculative novel with echoes of The Handmaids Tale, set against the backdrop of a plague. Some of us would do anything to survive, down to flatpacking ourselves like IKEA furniture, while others would do anything to make our miserable lives end. This is timely, provocative, ethically challenging fiction... | Robert McGill A Suitable Companion for the End of Your Life Paperback Book