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This is so badly written, the author should be ashamed to state she is an English teacher. The writing is extremely childish, not focused, and not thought-through at all. Is Erickson writing a post-apocalyptic story or a childish fantasy of a marriage facing trials? I don't think she knows. The power is out for 2 months and the main character, Molly, is worried about not receiving Thanksgiving presents from her husband whom she hasn't heard from? Really? Someone breaks into her house, doesn't steal her food, but kills her cat, so she lets the dog in the house alone immediately after. Molly's husband, Gary, is a pilot who fishes his way from Philadelphia to Florida, talks to no one except one family who takes him in after being beaten by Wandering bands of criminals? He had somehow, by not meeting up with anyone, discovered that after 2 months of power outages across the country that Blacksmiths have cropped up. Really? Who told him this and why would blacksmiths appear out of nowhere and for what reason? By themselves, the small family who takes him in, mysteriously plants, farms, and harvests acres and acres of crops, with no water, and no electricity. Molly lives in a Florida community who has dug wells somehow successfully just anywhere they pleased, and took 5 weeks to build a fence around beach-front property. Her community still maintains stores, but how they are running without electricity is not explained. They immediately have food from the gardens they just planted. In fact, there are no real hardships faced by anyone---everyone has plenty of food and life goes on as before, except now they read by candlelight. Give me a break. How anyone could give this slop more than one star is a testament to the poor literacy skills of our populace.