One man. One woman. One can of tuna.
Charles has his life organized just the way he wants it, until a natural disaster destroys all electronic and mechanical devices and his city collapses into anarchy. So together with his boss, Janet, who he's terrified of, he must trek to a distant town where things are hopefully simpler and safer. Along the way they meet friends, enemies, and cannibals, along with one very angry possum, all while civilization rapidly descends into violence and slavery. Can they find safety, and if they do, will things ever be the same again?
Patricia Hamill on Goodreads wrote:Great read - great ending. Not quite like your general "end if the world" novels. The characters are so well developed it's like each has a whole book to tell their story. Then being able to throw such subtle humor into a gruesome dismantling of a person is genius.
I read it straight through.
★★★★★
Dianski on Amazon Canada wrote:"...a lot of fun. [...] I really liked this book for its irreverent, mature humor and its unique take on the end of the world. Folks who enjoy absurd stories that are still logically sound would like this story; I know it sounds like an oxymoron, but the author pulls it off. "
★★★★
Amy's Bookshelf Reviews wrote:Things have gone horribly wrong for everyone [...]. And while there is nothing funny about the end of the world, just about everything is funny in this story. I laughed out loud several times, frankly. [Full of] heavy concepts, they are introduced and explored in a variety of wonderfully funny and imaginative ways. This is really one of Jonathan-David Jackson's best books!
★★★★★
★★★★
The only thing I’ve read by you, having just read it now, was the reason you gave for printing without monetary profit Kropotkin’s Conquest of Bread, putting yourself into a very special category that only an antiCap like me finds wildly humane. Thank you, fellow Anthropocenean!