After reading Sequoia Nagamatsu’s How High We Go In The Dark, I will never look at death the same!  This sci-fi book is like sci-fi with a heart and soul.  Each chapter is a different story of a character and how their life is affected at that point in time by climate change.  It starts in 2030 when Dr. Cliff (an archeologist) is grieving the loss of his daughter Clara.  He decides to go to the Arctic Circle where Batagaika Crater’s melting ice has exposed a body. The frozen little girl is named Annie and is part Homosapien and Neanderthal while also possessing DNA like a starfish or octopus.  Then we fast forward to Skip working at the City of Laughter where terminally ill children have a day of fun ending with a roller coaster to their death.  Chapters then move on to a living human pyramid seeing if they can reach the top of the hole they are in hence the title “How High We Go In The Dark”.  My favorite chapter was about the heartbroken scientist, David, growing organs for children and forms a relationship with a pig.  The pig “Snotorious P.I.G.” Was one of my favorite characters.  The Chapters then move on with new characters being related or connected to other characters.  In Songs of Your Decay, we watch Laird die and decay.  It was grotesque yet I couldn’t help reading further.  A lot of the stories are an ode to Japan and Japanese culture which made them even more intriguing.  Then the chapter, The Scope of Possibility, blew my mind.  It ties all the stories together including the story of the frozen girl, Annie.  This is one of those books you want to read parts a second time to see more connections.  This book is a work of futuristic art.  It shows that Nagamatsu worked on the stories for over ten years.