Join ECW Press and Flying Books for the launch of Andrew F. Sullivan’s The Marigold at The Garrison on Wednesday April 19 at 7:00 pm, hosted by Lauren Mitchell with readings by Naben Ruthnum, Emma Healey, and Ai Jiang.

In a near-future Toronto buffeted by environmental chaos and unfettered development, an unsettling new lifeform begins to grow beneath the surface, feeding off the past

The Marigold, a gleaming Toronto condo tower, sits a half-empty promise: a stack of scuffed rental suites and undelivered amenities that crumbles around its residents as a mysterious sludge spreads slowly through it. Public health inspector Cathy Jin investigates this toxic mold as it infests the city’s infrastructure, rotting it from within, while Sam “Soda” Dalipagic stumbles on a dangerous cache of data while cruising the streets in his Camry, waiting for his next rideshare alert. On the outskirts of downtown, 13-year-old Henrietta Brakes chases a friend deep underground after he’s snatched into a sinkhole by a creature from below.

All the while, construction of the city’s newest luxury tower, Marigold II, has stalled. Stanley Marigold, the struggling son of the legendary developer behind this project, decides he must tap into a hidden reserve of old power to make his dream a reality―one with a human cost.

Weaving together disparate storylines and tapping into the realms of body horror, urban dystopia, and ecofiction, The Marigold explores the precarity of community and the fragile designs that bind us together.

Andrew F. Sullivan is the author of The Marigold (ECW Press), a novel about a city eating itself and The Handyman Method (Gallery Books), a novel cowritten with Nick Cutter about home improvement gone wrong. Sullivan is also the author of the novel WASTE (Dzanc) and the short story collection All We Want is Everything (ARP Books).

Admission is free. All are welcome to attend.
Books will be available for purchase, and, of course, the author will be signing!