Low Down on Health HorrorToday’s episode of Amabookabooka is a throwback to 2017 when novelist,journalist and public health activist Marcus Low coughed up theincredible and, as it turns out, very credible dystopian health-horrornovel Asylum. A high-security quarantine facility has been set up inthe Karoo for people with a highly infectious lung disease known as“pulmonary nodulosis” - there is no cure. The inmates have beenseparated from the rest of the country - where they do nothing muchbut wait to die.Asylum is like an uncooked onion: raw with layers upon layers and willmake you cry. It is a thought-provoking and superbly written book thatwill do to you what a fictional South African government did to thenovel’s protagonist Barry James – hold you captive.