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Suicide Club

Suicide Club

A Novel about Living

by Rachel Heng
Hardback
Publication Date: 10/07/2018

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"A provocative new author. A fascinating debut novel. Read it " --Jeff VanderMeer

In Rachel Heng's debut set in near future New York City--where lives last three hundred years and the pursuit of immortality is all-consuming--Lea must choose between her estranged father and her chance to live forever.

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. And Lea is an overachiever. She's a successful trader on the New York exchange--where instead of stocks, human organs are now bought and sold--she has a beautiful apartment, and a fianc who rivals her in genetic perfection. And with the right balance of HealthTech(TM), rigorous juicing, and low-impact exercise, she might never die.

But Lea's perfect life is turned upside down when she spots her estranged father on a crowded sidewalk. His return marks the beginning of her downfall as she is drawn into his mysterious world of the Suicide Club, a network of powerful individuals and rebels who reject society's pursuit of immortality, and instead choose to live--and die--on their own terms. In this future world, death is not only taboo; it's also highly illegal. Soon Lea is forced to choose between a sanitized immortal existence and a short, bittersweet time with a man she has never really known, but who is the only family she has left in the world.

ISBN:
9781250185341
9781250185341
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
10-07-2018
Language:
English
Publisher:
Henry Holt & Company
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
217.17x143.76x30.99mm
Weight:
0.41kg
Rachel Heng

Rachel Heng is a Singaporean writer who graduated from Columbia University with a BA in Comparative Literature Society. After working in the finance sector in London for several years, Rachel moved to Austin, TX, to pursue an MFA in Fiction and Screenwriting at the Michener Center for Writers, where she is currently a James A. Michener Fellow and assistant editor for the O Henry Prize anthology.

Rachel's short fiction has received a Pushcart Prize Special Mention, Prairie Schooner's Jane Geske Award, and has been featured by the Huffington Post. Her fiction as been published widely in literary journals such as The Offing, Prairie Schooner, The Adroit Journal, the minnesota review and elsewhere. Her debut novel, Suicide Club, is out in July and will be translated into 7 languages.

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