Malagash [Paperback]

A precisely crafted, darkly humorous portrait of a family in mourning

Sundays father is dying of cancer. Theyve come home to Malagash, on the north shore of Nova Scotia, so he can die where he grew up. Her mother and her brother are both devastated. But devastated isnt good enough. Devastated doesnt fix anything. Sunday has a plan.

Shes started recording everything her father says. His boring stories. His stupid jokes. Everything. Shes recording every single I love you right alongside every Could we turn the heat up in here? Its all important.

Because Sunday is writing a computer virus. A computer virus that will live secretly on the hard drives of millions of people all over the world. A computer virus that will think her fathers thoughts and say her fathers words. She has thousands of lines of code to write. Cryptography to understand. Exploits to test. She doesnt have time to be sad. Her father is going to live forever.

- Pitching to literary journals and trade publications.

- Blog tour in the works.

- ARCs available for request on NetGalley and Edelweiss.

- Creative promotional material in the works (floppy drive with virus to market the book).

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Joey Comeauis the author of four novels and the webcomicA Softer World. His work has been nominated for the ReLit and Shirley Jackson awards, has appeared in theBest American Non-Required Readingand theGuardian, has been profiled inRolling Stone, and has recently been translated into French, Spanish, Turkish, and German. He lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
- Magalash is the story of one girl navigating her fathers cancer diagnosis and depending on modern technology rather than medicine to immortalize him.

- She writes a computer virus to help her father live forever  trying to build a copy of him, to construct his ghost  desperatels4