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The memory of animals claire fuller5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() In quotidian and thrilling moments alike, Fuller expertly grapples with the sickeningly real personal and ethical complexities of human survival. Fuller, the author of the Costa Novel Award–winning Unsettled Ground (2021), among other books, excels in examining the everyday moments at the heart of a life: Rachel scrolling through the pictures on her phone, hoping that one day social media will come back the group celebrating a birthday by drinking water and pretending that it’s vodka. Meanwhile, through experimental technology that enables people to revisit memories, which Leon was working on before the pandemic, Neffy is tempted to lose herself in the past, reliving a love affair, her childhood in England and Greece, and a brazen choice that led to the end of her career. While spending three weeks in a hospital in London, Neffy and four other volunteers-Rachel, Piper, Yahiko, and Leon-watch in horror as the outside world slides further into chaos and debate what they will and won’t do to try to make it out alive. ![]() ![]() In a future that bears an uncanny resemblance to the present, Neffy, a 27-year-old former marine biologist, registers for an experimental vaccine trial, perhaps the last chance to halt a devastating worldwide pandemic. A former marine biologist struggles to survive a global pandemic while reconciling with her difficult past. ![]()
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