For the townspeople of Union Grove, New York, the future is not what they thought it would be. Transportation is slow and dangerous, so food is grown locally at great expense of time and energy. And the outside world is largely unknown. There may be a president and he may be in Minneapolis now, ...
I really liked the post-apocalyptic feel of the first book, A World by Hand, because it explored an idea of what the life we are living now could lead to. But the geography and sociology underlying the first book were entirely absent here. The characters were unbelievable, and most importantly ...