LIFE IS ABSURD. ALL ROADS LEAD TO DEATH. HOW DOES ONE LIVE A GOOD LIFE? The pandemic rages on, but the world has changed the channel. Society has inoculated the working class: by normalizing dying of COVID. In China, Zero COVID has maintained strict lockdowns and quarantine procedures for years...something has to give. And one day, it does.
THE YEAR OF THE RAT, 2020, was a time of panic, uncertainty, and great division. Jorah Kai leads a plucky band of frontline workers and activists to fight the pandemic with science. In an increasingly bizarre world of book deals, TV appearances, and speaking engagements, he does a recovery event with Jeanne Claude Van Damme. But nothing could prepare him for what came next...
The first Canadian journalist in China to record the beginnings of the pandemic, now an international best-selling author, presents his diary of the start of the pandemic as the author's preferred edition for the very first time.'A feverish fear…what began as a memoir and a goodbye,became a story of triumph against the virus,and a lighthouse in the storm.'
*** Experience the runaway hit Steampunk and Sword & Sorcery novel that debuted as an Amazon Best Seller, now available as an audiobook narrated-and-voice-acted by award-winning VO Christian Neale! *** What happens when you take an almost-famous D&D dungeon master with a history of headlining major music festivals and breathing fire in the circus and send him to a mountain in China to sit alone...