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Jan 07, 2017GLNovak rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
Yes, I agree, this is not "The Road", and should be read on its own merits. The small sparks of happiness, contentment and, yes, love, made this a much less stark read than many books of this genre. I liked it. The premise is that in the distant past something happened in North America that reduced it to a subsistence peasant-type society with very little in the way of metal or other manufactured goods. Many are trekking east to take ship to Europe where the story is things are more than grand. They are stupendously great with jobs for everyone and the trees just dripping with fruit - the proverbial golden land where every dream can come true. Who knows if this is real? No one; but they keep going. The journey is fraught with dangers, but also some good along the way. Along with the thieves, slavers, scavengers, religious fanatics we have been meeting in other post-apocalyptic stories there are still small farms and sympathetic souls. The ending gives us a glimmer of hope for the characters, and for ourselves should we ever land in similar circumstances.