The Marigold Audiobook Libro.fm

This impressively bleak vision of the near future is as grotesquely amusing as it is grim Publishers Weekly STARRED REVIEW

A bold dystopian novel that captivates with its dread and depth The Marigold is unhinged literary horror that goes right to the source of decay Iain Reid awardwinning author of Im Thinking of Ending Things Foe and We Spread

In a nearfuture Toronto buffeted by environmental chaos and unfettered development an unsettling new lifeform begins to grow beneath the surface feeding off the past

The Marigold a gleaming Toronto condo tower sits a halfempty promise a stack of scuffed rental suites and undelivered amenities that crumbles around its residents as a mysterious sludge spreads slowly through it Public health inspector Cathy Jin investigates this toxic mold as it infests the citys infrastructure rotting it from within while Sam Soda Dalipagic stumbles on a dangerous cache of data while cruising the streets in his Camry waiting for his next rideshare alert On the outskirts of downtown 13yearold Henrietta Brakes chases a friend deep underground after hes snatched into a sinkhole by a creature from below

All the while construction of the citys newest luxury tower Marigold II has stalled Stanley Marigold the struggling son of the legendary developer behind this project decides he must tap into a hidden reserve of old power to make his dream a realityone with a human cost

Weaving together disparate storylines and tapping into the realms of body horror urban dystopia and ecofiction The Marigold explores the precarity of community and the fragile designs that bind us together