World of Trouble (The Last Policeman Book, #3)

by Ben H. Winters

Surviving challenging circumstances, I have found, is very often a matter of keeping things in perspective.

Almost always, things are exactly as they appear. People are continually looking at the painful or boring parts of life with the half-hidden expectation that there is more going on beneath the surface, some deeper meaning that will eventually be unveiled; we’re waiting for the saving grace, the shocking reveal. But almost always things just are what they are, almost always there’s no glittering ore hidden under the dirt. A massive asteroid really is coming and it will kill us all.