By: Emily St. John Mandel

I missed this when it was first released in 2014. In theory, this was in my wheel house. Post-apocalyptic story about those there near the beginning. I am not sure I even heard about 8 years ago. Since then, I heard about it a couple of times from people who generally don’t like the genre. And then the TV show came out and was one of the most humane and literate looks at the apocalypse ever to be filmed.

So, I got the book for my kindle. And devoured it. It was the first book in the genre in a long time I didn’t want to throw things because of passages they were subtly racist, nakedly wanting to convert anyone surviving to a narrow version of Christianity, or just outright waiting for the STHF so they can give it to their socialist neighbors…. Instead, the survivors are lucky, and literate, and humane – in spite of what they went through.

Excellent book, really good adaptation.

352 Pages

4.75/5