New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2022). First edition - Author's dystopian first novel (preceded by an award-winning short story collection), written as a series of interconnected first person stories many told by people of Japanese American ancestry, many set in the San Francisco. bay area. Despite its theme of a devasting virus, much of this was written before covid and so it seems prescient. "In the near future, scientists investigate a Siberia melting from climate change but an unearthed Neanderthal corpse hides something inside: a catastrophic virus. The resulting 'Arctic plague' will transform the world. Humans build euthanasia amusement parks and funerary skyscrapers. They repair robotic pets that speak for the dead, or retreat into virtual reality worlds. Grief and loss permeate every page. . . it is a book of sorrow for the destruction were bringing on ourselves. Yet the novel reminds us there's still hope in human connections, despite our sadness." (NY Times)" 292 pp.