"This impressively bleak vision of the near future is as grotesquely
amusing as it is grim." -- Publishers Weekly STARRED REVIEW
"A gripping tour-de-force torn from tomorrow's headlines." -- David
Demchuk, author of Red X and The Bone Mother
"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, award-winning author of I'm Thinking of Ending
Things, Foe, and We Spread
In a near-future 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 half-empty 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 city's 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, 13-year-old Henrietta Brakes chases a friend deep
underground after he's snatched into a sinkhole by a creature from
below.
All the while, construction of the city's 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 reality -- one 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.
