Sarah Maria Griffin is from Dublin, Ireland. She is the author of the novels Spare & Found Parts and Other Words For Smoke, which won an Irish Book Award in 2019. She writes about video games for The Guardian, and her nonfiction has appeared in The Irish Times, The Winter Papers, and The Stinging Fly, among other places.
Griffin's new novel is Eat the Ones You Love.
At Electric Lit she tagged seven "books about work that ... lean firmly to the side of the gothic." One title on the list:
Candy House by Jennifer EganRead about another entry on the list at Electric Lit.
I do feel there should be a sub-category within the Gothic Employment that handles tech, specifically, because there is a growing darkness toevery novel written about tech as each year passes. Egan’s novel is a set of beautifully interlinking short stories—and a sequel to A Visit From The Goon Squad—many of which orbit a company called Mandela, which externalizes memories. Lives. Characters upload themselves, or wrestle with the nature of what it is to do so. They willingly make ghosts of themselves, permanent digital monuments. This is a vast digital graveyard in the making—and the consequences of that are complicated, and heavy, as are all dealings with life after death.
Candy House is among Joe Fassler's seven books featuring fictional tech with world-altering consequences.
--Marshal Zeringue