I just wanted to post a little about this fantastic and somewhat weird book. If you have not read it, the TL;DR: great human book, sad human stories, weirdly scifi ending.
The story throughline in this novel is an "alien" plague that starts from a research outpost in the Antarctic and kills off a large number of children (and some adults) across the world. So much so that people start choosing to euthanize their children before they can suffer more.
Each chapter is a different protagonist, usually someone with kids or working with kids. The chapters tell the story over many years, giving a great sense of scale and history to the story. These are not all sad stories, they are stories of humans struggling in their darkest times while everything around them is turning to shit.
I think the ending (which I won't spoil her) gets a little pulp sci-fi but also it makes sense in the context of the stories.
Have you read this? What is your opinion? Any books like this you would recommend?
Happy Eostre!
by gigaflar3
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Loved it. I don’t if I think it’s about children or human relationships. So many chapters are just so thought provoking and evocative.
Sounds like the kind of book I might read!