Debs4jc's review
The Last Town on Earth: A Novel
by Thomas Mullen
Debs4jc's review
The Last Town on Earth: A Novel by Thomas Mullen
Debs4jc's review
this novel is an exploration of what happens to a community of people during the spanish flu epidemic of 1918. this was interesting to me because my knowledge of this time period was almost non-existant. how many people today even know there was a spanish flu epidemic, or that during wwi people fought over the u.s.'s involvement in it, or of the union/management struggles of the time? these are all covered in this novel, which asks "what if a town quarantined itself, cutting itself off from teh outside world?" that's what the town does in this novel, which gives the author a chance to make a study of the characters who have to enforce this quarantine. this book was definately more character focused, i found it very slow reading and dry and unexciting. it's heavy on historical detail and like i said it's an interesting period in u.s. history so to learn about that this book would be slightly more interesting than a textbook. but maybe not by much.
