Suicide Club

A provocative new author. A fascinating debut novel. Read it! —Jeff VanderMeer In Rachel Heng''s debut set in near future New York City—where lives last three hundred years and the pursuit of immortality is all-consuming—Lea must choose between her estranged father and her chance to live forever.Lea Kirino is a Lifer which means that a roll of the genetic dice has given her the potential to live forever—if she does everything right. And Lea is an overachiever. She''s a successful trader on the New York exchange—where instead of stocks human organs are now bought and sold—she has a beautiful apartment and a fiancé who rivals her in genetic perfection. And with the right balance of HealthTech™ rigorous juicing and low-impact exercise she might never die. But Lea''s perfect life is turned upside down when she spots her estranged father on a crowded sidewalk. His return marks the beginning of her downfall as she is drawn into his mysterious world of the Suicide Club a network of powerful individuals and rebels who reject society''s pursuit of immortality and instead choose to live—and die—on their own terms. In this future world death is not only taboo; it''s also highly illegal. Soon Lea is forced to choose between a sanitized immortal existence and a short bittersweet time with a man she has never really known but who is the only family she has left in the world.