Shehan Karunatikala, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida (W. W. Norton, 2023) 388 pp
I picked this up at Loutit Library, my attention caught by the "Booker Prize 2022" badge on the front cover, and wondered what sort of fantasmic world I had wandered into. When the story begins the main characters are already dead, wandering through an intermediate stage of the afterlife, trying to figure out how they were killed, trying to contact the living and help them bring justice to the heartless killers who sustain a tyrannical government in power, and -- the organizing theme -- trying to finish the expose that will bring the government down by directing the still-living to find and disseminate incriminating photos of mast massacres. And he has just seven days ("seven moons") to finish all this.
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