Suicide Club
A Novel About Living
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ISBN10: 1250185343
ISBN13: 9781250185341
Hardcover
352 Pages
$27.00
CA$35.00
Lea Kirino is a “Lifer,” which means that a roll of the genetic dice has given her the potential to live forever—ifshe 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 fiancé who rivals her in genetic perfection. And with the right balance of HealthTech™, 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.
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"Suicide Club is an original and subversive exploration of health obsessions, consumptions, and what makes life worth living."—The Independent
"What if immortality fueled the economy and a government agency created an algorithm that decides who lives forever—and who doesn’t? That’s the creepy world Rachel Heng constructs in Suicide Club, a dark novel where the systems of human inequality feel unsettlingly close to current reality."—Bitch Media
"Suicide Club is a novel of ideas where issues of eugenics and euthanasia are treated sensitively by the author, in a way that recalls Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, or more recently, The Power by Naomi Alderman."—The Irish Times
"What is the value of life if it never ends? A feat of blazing imagination, Rachel Heng's Suicide Club is a thought-provoking look at a near-future society that feels a quarter-turn away from ours. Heng's storytelling gleams, but this novel doesn't shy away from darkness—thank goodness."—Kelly Luce, author of Pull Me Under
"A Dorian Gray nightmare of a future where the sought-after beauty is barely even skin deep, Suicide Club is a subversive celebration of life. It makes us consider what’s actually valuable, and what ‘healthy living’ really means."—Nick Clark Windo, author of The Feed
"Heng expertly threads a ribbon of dread through her glittering vistas and gleaming characters . . . [This is] a complicated and promising debut that spoofs the current health culture craze even as it anticipates its appalling culmination." —Kirkus Reviews
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The cake was a huge, tiered thing, painted with buttercream and decked with tiny red flowers, floating on a glass pedestal in the middle of the crowded room.
No one talked about it, or even looked at it. But every now and then,...
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