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Reading this book during a pandemic proved an incredibly emotional experience. There was gratitude, of course, that the COVID pandemic hasn’t been as bad as the one in this book; but there was also fear, because I couldn’t put this book down and retreat into a pandemic-free existence. There was an immediacy to the story that wouldn’t have existed when this novel was published. How easily could our grid blink out? How close did we come to the future in this book? How close are we still? I cried a
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I really loved all of the different stories and how they come together. I only wish there was a sequel!
Gorgeous and heartbreaking. I've heard so many good things about this book and I'm happy to report they are all true. This book follows the lives of several characters in three different points of time: decades before the Georgia Flu, as the Flu breaks out across the globe and civilization breaks down, and twenty years after the Flu. The story weaves back and forth between the three time-periods, focusing mostly on the Year Zero (and soon after) and the Year Twenty.
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I fell into the story Mandel ...more
This is exactly the type of book that I love. Extraordinary.
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It's a post apocalyptic story that follows a group of musicians and actors as they travel from town to town. It's also about a group of people who's lives are intertwined and connected because of Arthur Leander, a famous actor who dies during a production of King Lear on the very night that the Georgia Flu makes its way to North America. It's about how quickly (or not) we adapt to changes in our world, but still hold on to the past. It's about fear, survival, communit ...more
It's a post apocalyptic story that follows a group of musicians and actors as they travel from town to town. It's also about a group of people who's lives are intertwined and connected because of Arthur Leander, a famous actor who dies during a production of King Lear on the very night that the Georgia Flu makes its way to North America. It's about how quickly (or not) we adapt to changes in our world, but still hold on to the past. It's about fear, survival, communit ...more
When I first picked up this book, I noticed that Library of Congress had assigned it the subject heading Time Travel - Fiction. In point of fact, not once do our characters ever travel through time. Unless frequent flashbacks count. But truth in advertising aside, I enjoyed this picture of a dystopian, post-civilization adventure. And of course, comic books provide the narrative thread that pulls all our disparate characters together in the end.
Authors, here's a deal I'll make you: You give me a well-written apocalyptic/dystopian novel involving a plague, and I'll give you five stars. Pretty much a guarantee.
Bonuses for this one: graphic novels, Shakespeare, Calvin and Hobbes. ...more
Bonuses for this one: graphic novels, Shakespeare, Calvin and Hobbes. ...more
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