The Marigold

Author/Guide: Andrew Sullivan

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2035: The Marigold, a gleaming Toronto condo tower, is not all gold…

ISBN: 978-1770416642
Genre: Dystopian, Fantasy/Sci Fi

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What you need to know before your trail

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.

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Toronto

This is a representation of a city, Toronto, in the dystopian near future. The Marigold of the title is a shiny, new high-rise building. Well it’s not so shiny as there are many environmental concerns about this place including toxic mould and all manner of other disgusting problems that make this place unfit to live in.

The rest of the city seems just as unsavoury with a sludge spreading around the streets, and a sinkhole appearing on the city’s outskirts. The city’s infrastructure is breaking down and it’s not a pretty sight.

Urban dystopia and a climate that is getting it own back on our lack of effort to save the planet are the themes of this book.