We asked the staff of The Verge what their favorite reads were over the last year. Their answers ranged from science fiction novels to autobiographies to lessons on how to draw and an examination of the addiction of gambling.
This maybe-but-not-quite-fantasy centers on two people, a woman named Ann and her adult son Brian, who through the course of the story learn to trust their own inner strength. When Brian disappears overboard during a boat trip, Ann is assured by the authorities and her friends that her son is most certainly dead and that she should give him up.
Haunting, grotesque, and funny, The Marigold mines horror from the collision of old and new money in a near-future / alt-present Toronto. In Sullivan's world, every skyscraper requires a secret sacrifice made in blood - and when a real estate tycoon fails to pay it while realizing his grand vision, he puts a fatal strain on a system already unbalanced by the encroachment of modernity into the dark corners of urban life.
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