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A Suitable Companion for the End of Your Life

par Robert McGill

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A bold and absurd new take on the dystopian plague novel, where people are treated like IKEA furniture Distraught and hopeless, an eighteen-year-old distance runner, Regan, decides to end her life. And she'll do it through an unusual new method available only on the dark web. Enter Ülle, a woman with amnesia, who will, inadvertently, make Regan's wish come true. But Ülle begins to remember her past and the outrageous steps her government took to combat a deadly pandemic of parasitic infections, which have brought her to this new country and to Regan's house. Meanwhile, Regan might be changing her mind, and she finds herself more and more concerned about keeping both Ülle and herself alive. But the shadowy organization that brought them together wants to keep them both quiet - permanently. A Suitable Companion for the End of Your Life is a darkly comic dystopian tale that probes our anxieties around boundaries, whether territorial or bodily, and our fraught desire not to die alone. "Gripping from the first page, Robert McGill's A Suitable Companion for the End of Your Life is a dark, speculative novel with echoes of The Handmaid's Tale, set against the backdrop of a plague. Some of us would do anything to survive, down to flatpacking ourselves like IKEA furniture, while others would do anything to make our miserable lives end. This is timely, provocative, ethically challenging fiction that asks whether the drive to survive is stronger than the inevitability of death." -Ian Williams, author of Reproduction "Terrifying and tender, A Suitable Companion's sci-fi angle serves to frame a fascinating parable about the post-post-modern family. Unpredictable and completely original, this is a propulsive, rewarding, and thought-provoking read." -Michael Redhill, author of Bellevue Square ​​"The guy knows what he's doing, from missing children to silk parachutes, you are never lost and he will catch you." - Zadie Smith, author of NW "A storyteller who refuses to keep things straight, and for this produces freshly captivating effects." - Andrew Pyper, author of The Demonologist "A writer of striking talent and originality." - Daily Mail on The Mysteries "McGill is a talented writer, adept at expressing the nuanced, unspoken truths that beg the lies by which we live." - Observer on The Mysteries… (plus d'informations)
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A Suitable Companion for the End of Your Life is a darkly seriocomic take on the pandemic, suicide, body dysmorphia, immigration, the meaning of family, relationships, parenting, and more. Canadian eighteen year old, highly discouraged, injured distance runner Regan plans her suicide-by-flatpack, in which a person infected with “the worm” is compressed into a plastic wrapped tube and shipped to a buyer seeking companionship. Officially discontinued after off-gassing began killing recipients and inflated flat-packers alike, the flat-pack dark web supplies Regan with, first, Ülle, then Jari, then a baby. Defying convention, Ülle regains memories of her life before being flat-packed, and Regan doesn’t die from off-gassing. The black marketeers and the flat-packers’ family matriarch opt to kill her themselves.

The tight narrative comments broadly on the mishandling of the COVID pandemic and on migration, as infected people are relocated to another country to which they arrive pre-assimilated, without memories or history. Societal themes of family and success are framed by Regan’s relationship with her absent parents, her curtailed running career and related eating disorder, and her desire for human connection which ultimately overrules her desire to end it all.

Robert McGill has written a gruesomely witty story of one person’s experience, with wide-ranging implications for the rest of us. ( )
  leisure | Nov 14, 2022 |
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It's hard to describe the inventive plot line without giving too much away - although I will say that the tagline of the book being, "A bold and absurd new take on the dystopian plague novel, where people are treated like IKEA furniture" did very little to prepare me for the actual focus of the book. The text alternates chapters between telling the "modern day" story and letters to a "young one" filling in past context. Both threads converge towards the end of the book, tying all the various characters together in a way I didn't expect. It's a dark book, but told in a way that makes the darkness as just a reality and part of life. It touches on suicide, eating disorders, loneliness, global pandemics, black market gangsters, and family relationships. The alternating chapters kept me, at first, from really getting into the book, but it's well-written with engaging characters, and despite the darkness, the unfolding plot kept me going and enjoying it (so to speak).
  herzogbr | Nov 3, 2022 |
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Regan decides to commit suicide due to many problems and a plague, she orders a “flatpack” which is a blow up of a once upon a time human, to make her end “comfortable.” Once she opens the box, which the flatpack is distributed in, this novel take off and does not stop or disappoint.

I loved this book and hated for it to end. I would like to say how in awe I am of Robert Gill’s story telling - just wonderful.

Thank you LibraryThing for the opportunity to read this wonderful book ( )
  bonitajean | Oct 25, 2022 |
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This book takes an interesting premise - people can be treated like IKEA furniture and be shipped around the world in flat-pack boxes - and an intriguing structure to keep the reader engaged in the story from beginning to end. There is the character of Regan, a former runner contemplating suicide, and Ulle who finds themselves playing a role in Regan's final days. It's surreal, poignant, and a worthwhile read. ( )
  BooksForYears | Oct 14, 2022 |
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I love truly novel and creative concepts, and this book is definitely that! It's a fascinating concept, exploring what could happen if we were able to put people into long term storage and bring them out again. It was an enjoyable read with some interesting twists and turns. As an engineer, I would have loved to know more about the flatpacking (and unpacking) process and the plague that drove people to it, but that's not really the point. This isn't a sci-fi story, it's a people story. The main character, Regan, was well-developed with personality and history and motivations, so that I cared about her even if I didn't really relate to her. The flatpacked woman, Ulle, was likewise well fleshed out and sympathetic, and I was happy to see her get more empowered through the course of the book. Overall a fun ride, I would recommend. ( )
  rocketgal | Oct 7, 2022 |
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A bold and absurd new take on the dystopian plague novel, where people are treated like IKEA furniture Distraught and hopeless, an eighteen-year-old distance runner, Regan, decides to end her life. And she'll do it through an unusual new method available only on the dark web. Enter Ülle, a woman with amnesia, who will, inadvertently, make Regan's wish come true. But Ülle begins to remember her past and the outrageous steps her government took to combat a deadly pandemic of parasitic infections, which have brought her to this new country and to Regan's house. Meanwhile, Regan might be changing her mind, and she finds herself more and more concerned about keeping both Ülle and herself alive. But the shadowy organization that brought them together wants to keep them both quiet - permanently. A Suitable Companion for the End of Your Life is a darkly comic dystopian tale that probes our anxieties around boundaries, whether territorial or bodily, and our fraught desire not to die alone. "Gripping from the first page, Robert McGill's A Suitable Companion for the End of Your Life is a dark, speculative novel with echoes of The Handmaid's Tale, set against the backdrop of a plague. Some of us would do anything to survive, down to flatpacking ourselves like IKEA furniture, while others would do anything to make our miserable lives end. This is timely, provocative, ethically challenging fiction that asks whether the drive to survive is stronger than the inevitability of death." -Ian Williams, author of Reproduction "Terrifying and tender, A Suitable Companion's sci-fi angle serves to frame a fascinating parable about the post-post-modern family. Unpredictable and completely original, this is a propulsive, rewarding, and thought-provoking read." -Michael Redhill, author of Bellevue Square ​​"The guy knows what he's doing, from missing children to silk parachutes, you are never lost and he will catch you." - Zadie Smith, author of NW "A storyteller who refuses to keep things straight, and for this produces freshly captivating effects." - Andrew Pyper, author of The Demonologist "A writer of striking talent and originality." - Daily Mail on The Mysteries "McGill is a talented writer, adept at expressing the nuanced, unspoken truths that beg the lies by which we live." - Observer on The Mysteries

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