Malagash - The Library of the Uncommons

175 pages

English language

Published Nov. 10, 2017

ISBN:: 978-1-77041-407-5
OCLC Number:: 973802712

(2 reviews)

"Sunday's father is dying of cancer. They've 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 isn't good enough. Devastated doesn't fix anything. Sunday has a plan. She's started recording everything her father says. His boring stories. His stupid jokes. Everything. She's recording every single "I love you" right alongside every "Could we turn the heat up in here?" It's 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 father's thoughts and say her father's words. She has thousands of lines of code to write. Cryptography to understand. Exploits to test. She doesn't have time to be sad. Her father is going to live …

"Sunday's father is dying of cancer. They've 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 isn't good enough. Devastated doesn't fix anything. Sunday has a plan. She's started recording everything her father says. His boring stories. His stupid jokes. Everything. She's recording every single "I love you" right alongside every "Could we turn the heat up in here?" It's 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 father's thoughts and say her father's words. She has thousands of lines of code to write. Cryptography to understand. Exploits to test. She doesn't have time to be sad. Her father is going to live forever."--

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ahynes1 reviewed Malagash by Joey Comeau

Review of 'Malagash' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

My paternal grandmother was adopted as a young girl in Nova Scotia. My father always tried to find out about her birth parents and her early life. He died a few years ago with many questions unanswered.

Recently, I've made some connections on 23andMe from people that I believe are related to her. I've still got a ways to go to figure our who she really was. She died years before I was born.

As part of my efforts, I've decided to find some novels about the life in Nova Scotia. Malagash caught my attention. I've spent much of my life working with computers, as did my father, so the idea of a someone trying to capture their father's essence and save it in a computer virus fascinated me.

The book was better than I expected. It is a wonderful gem capturing the last days of a man dying of …

My paternal grandmother was adopted as a young girl in Nova Scotia. My father always tried to find out about her birth parents and her early life. He died a few years ago with many questions unanswered.

Recently, I've made some connections on 23andMe from people that I believe are related to her. I've still got a ways to go to figure our who she really was. She died years before I was born.

As part of my efforts, I've decided to find some novels about the life in Nova Scotia. Malagash caught my attention. I've spent much of my life working with computers, as did my father, so the idea of a someone trying to capture their father's essence and save it in a computer virus fascinated me.

The book was better than I expected. It is a wonderful gem capturing the last days of a man dying of cancer and his interaction with his family.

MaidMerry reviewed Malagash by Joey Comeau

Review of 'Malagash' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

I hate reading about cancer. I hate commercials about cancer. I hate television shows about cancer. I hate movies about cancer. I've seen enough of it in real life, including my own mother's ordeal, that I have zero interest in spending time reading or viewing stories about it. However, I became intrigued with this book after hearing the author speak at our local book festival. So, I bought it.

I loved this book. It's a quick read, but a good one. The author deals with the topic in a tender but matter-of-fact fashion, avoiding the usual clichés that I despise, and, in fact, poking gentle fun at them. Comeau's writing is almost poetic, not in use of flowery language, but in economy of words. I enjoyed this styled of writing.

Subjects

Hackers
Fiction

Places

Malagash (N.S.)