Suicide Club, Rachel Heng
Suicide Club, Rachel Heng
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Suicide Club
A Novel About Living

Author: Rachel Heng

Narrator: Gwendoline Yeo

Unabridged: 9 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/10/2018


Synopsis

In Rachel Heng's debut audiobook 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.

About Rachel Heng

Rachel Heng's debut novel, Suicide Club, was published by Henry Holt in July 2018, will be translated in eight languages worldwide and has been featured as a most anticipated summer read by ELLE, Gizmodo, Bitch Media, The Rumpus, NYLON and The Irish Times. Her short fiction has received a Pushcart Prize Special Mention and Prairie Schooner's Jane Geske Award, and has been published in Glimmer Train, The Offing, Prairie Schooner and elsewhere. Rachel is currently a James A. Michener Fellow at the Michener Center for Writers, UT Austin.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Cindy on May 21, 2020

An interesting concept, but much of how this society operates is overstated and exaggerated, like a Black Mirror episode without the subtlety. There doesn't appear to be a strong message that the book advocates for or interesting questions beyond what the typical dystopian story asks. I also found i......more

Goodreads review by Felice on February 12, 2020

Everything started going wrong after the Second Wave…They’d had the lifespan tests and predictive treatments for decades…but this was something different. The Second Wave, it was dubbed, when a whole raft of new Medtech measures were approved for mass distribution: first-generation SmartBloodTM, an......more

Goodreads review by Emily on February 14, 2023

I found the first 20 pages unengaging but later found myself reading half of this novel in one sitting. The idea of the novel was interesting but it could have been fleshed out a bit more. Additionally I did not like the main character much and Liked Anja more.......more

Goodreads review by Rachel on July 09, 2018

Suicide Club is a book full of brilliant concepts that never develop into a convincing or engaging narrative. It's a speculative novel set in a near-future New York society in which death is illegal and the pursuit of immortality is all-consuming. 100-year-old Lea Kirino is a model citizen; she has......more