The Way the World Ends (Warmer, #1)

by Jess Walter

God, she realizes, we haven’t done anything. We bitch at conferences or we write papers, or we make antigun placards or we march on a specified day, or we put on a pussy hat or we protest for an hour, but then we go back to work, back to watching TV, back to lives of petty gossip and distraction.

There are four basic rules of thermodynamics that govern matter in the known universe, but after that day, Rowan will propose a fifth, Shit can always get weirder,