Humans are useless at learning from their mistakes. We just have to keep making new plans.
When Neffy wakes up from an uneasy sleep in a hospital bed, nothing is as it should be. There is no food, and nobody to tend to her. The city streets outside her window have fallen silent. She doesn’t know it yet, but a debilitating new virus is sweeping the globe, and the world will never be the same again.
Feverish, confused, and wary of the strangers trapped inside with her, Neffy finds solace in her own memories of the past – even the memories of the mistakes that led her here.
But as the days turn into weeks, it is clear that Neffy will have to make a choice. How do you choose between a past that has already disappeared forever, and a future you can't begin to imagine?
"A book of survival, consequences and connection."
― The Boston Globe, A Best Book of Summer
"Imagine a ‘Lord of the Flies’ where everyone on the island has opted in; or a ‘Breakfast Club’ where anyone who leaves dies. . . . It’s a neat trick that Fuller pulls off, weaving together so many familiar threads, from the post-pandemic storyline to the extremity-in-isolation scenario to the life story reconceived under duress, and yet coming up with a new and promising pattern―an authorial performance in keeping with her generous character."
― The Washington Post
"A haunting novel of second chances."
― Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
"No mere survival story, the novel explores the isolation and grief that comes with outliving the people with whom you have unfinished business."
― The Philadelphia Inquirer, A Best Book of June
"Brings to mind Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven and Sequoia Nagamatsu’s How High We Go in the Dark."
― LitHub, A Best SciFi & Fantasy Book of June
"A thrilling departure from our reality."
― Good Housekeeping
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