The Migration

Helen Marshall

Science Fiction

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Creepy and atmospheric, evocative of Stephen King's classic Pet Sematary, The Migration is a story of sisterhood, transformation, and the limitations of love, from a thrilling new voice in Canadian fiction.
When I was younger I didn't know a thing about death. I thought it meant stillness, a body gone limp. A marionette with its strings cut. Death was like a long vacation – a going away.
Storms and flooding are worsening around the world, and a mysterious immune disorder has begun to afflict the young. Sophie Perella is about to begin her senior year of high school in Toronto when her little sister, Kira, is diagnosed. Their parents' marriage falters under the strain, and Sophie's mother takes the girls to Oxford, England, to live with their Aunt Irene. An Oxford University professor and historical epidemiologist obsessed with relics of the Black Death, Irene works with a centre that specializes in treating people with the illness. She is a friend to Sophie, and offers a window into a strange and ancient history of human plague and recovery. Sophie just wants to understand what's happening now; but as mortality rates climb, and reports emerge of bodily tremors in the deceased, it becomes clear there is nothing normal about this condition – and that the dead aren't staying dead. When Kira succumbs, Sophie faces an unimaginable choice: let go of the sister she knows, or take action to embrace something terrifying and new.
Tender and chilling, unsettling and hopeful, The Migration is a story of a young woman's dawning awareness of mortality and the power of the human heart to thrive in cataclysmic circumstances.

Über Helen Marshall

Aurora-winning poet Helen Marshall is an author, editor, and bibliophile. Her poetry and fiction have been published in, among others, The Chiaroscuro, Abyss & Apex, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, and now Tor.com. Her chapbook of poems Skeleton Leaves (Kelp Queen Press, 2011) won an Aurora Award for Best Speculative Poem, and, in November, she released her debut fiction collection Hair Side, Flesh Side (ChiZine Publications, 2012), an exploration of history, memory and the cost of creating art. She is currently completing a Ph.D in medieval studies at the University of Toronto, for which she spends a great deal of her time staring at fourteenth-century manuscripts.


Verlag:

Titan Books

Veröffentlicht:

2019

Druckseiten:

ca. 248

Sprache:

English

Medientyp:

eBook


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