Suicide Club: A story about living

by RachelHeng (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2019

  $3.33

  Imagine a world where the healthy choice is the only choice.

  'Original and subversive.' Independent

  'Thought-provoking' Irish Times

  'Life-affirming' Erin Kelly, author of He Said/She Said
  
  Lea Kirino is a 'Lifer,' which means that a roll of the genetic dice has given her the potential to live forever - if she does everything right. She has lived her life by religiously following the state directives that ensure she remains fit and healthy. She knows she wants to live forever, and she is going to green juice, yoga-cise and meditate her way to immortality.

  Yet, when a brush with death brings her face to face with a mysterious group who believe in everything the state has banned, memories of now-forbidden childhood pleasures resurge alongside ghosts of her past. As Lea's long-held beliefs begin to crack, she is forced to consider: What does it really mean to live?

  Provocative and chillingly topical, Suicide Club is an electrifying imagining of a possible future, and a powerful meditation on the lives we leave behind.

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  More praise for Suicide Club:

  'Addictive' Sun

  'Gripping' Red

  'Fascinating' Jeff VanderMeer, author of the Southern Reach trilogy

  'Clever, bold and makes you think about the value of life' Good Housekeeping

  'The fascinating and compelling scenario on show here ultimately forces you to question nothing less than the meaning of life' Metro

  'Chilling . . . Through crisscrossing stories about love and loss, suffused in some wonderful and heartbreaking prose, she takes the reader on a journey to truly understand the question: who wants to live forever?' Stylist

  'Acerbically funny . . . shows the symmetry between upward striving and dark desire, how the fundamentally human pursuit of more . . . can manifest at once as self-indulgence and restriction' Atlantic

• New

  Paperback
  2019

  $11.91

  Imagine a world where the healthy choice is the only choice.

  'Original and subversive.' Independent

  'Thought-provoking' Irish Times

  'Life-affirming' Erin Kelly, author of He Said/She Said
  
  Lea Kirino is a 'Lifer,' which means that a roll of the genetic dice has given her the potential to live forever - if she does everything right. She has lived her life by religiously following the state directives that ensure she remains fit and healthy. She knows she wants to live forever, and she is going to green juice, yoga-cise and meditate her way to immortality.

  Yet, when a brush with death brings her face to face with a mysterious group who believe in everything the state has banned, memories of now-forbidden childhood pleasures resurge alongside ghosts of her past. As Lea's long-held beliefs begin to crack, she is forced to consider: What does it really mean to live?

  Provocative and chillingly topical, Suicide Club is an electrifying imagining of a possible future, and a powerful meditation on the lives we leave behind.

  ********

  More praise for Suicide Club:

  'Addictive' Sun

  'Gripping' Red

  'Fascinating' Jeff VanderMeer, author of the Southern Reach trilogy

  'Clever, bold and makes you think about the value of life' Good Housekeeping

  'The fascinating and compelling scenario on show here ultimately forces you to question nothing less than the meaning of life' Metro

  'Chilling . . . Through crisscrossing stories about love and loss, suffused in some wonderful and heartbreaking prose, she takes the reader on a journey to truly understand the question: who wants to live forever?' Stylist

  'Acerbically funny . . . shows the symmetry between upward striving and dark desire, how the fundamentally human pursuit of more . . . can manifest at once as self-indulgence and restriction' Atlantic