God Mode (Paperback)

Paperback. A vast system crash in the virus garden. Matthew Haighs second collection is a single, electrifying sequence on chronic kidney disease, dialysis, transplant and the body re-entering the world. With the cut-up wit and pop-cultural intensity that made Death Magazine a Polari-longlisted debut now grafted onto something graver and more interior God Mode tracks an illness through hospital wards, faux-medical letters, surgical theatres and the haunted spaces of online life. It is a queer survival narrative, a body horror, a prayer book for the age of the algorithm. A book about being saved, and what is lost in the saving. A book-length sequence on chronic kidney disease, dialysis and transplant from the Polari-longlisted author of Death Magazine. A queer body horror epic of survival and secular faith. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.