Book description
God is a slick god. Temple knows. She knows because of all the
crackerjack miracles still to be seen on this ruined globe . . .
Older than her years and completely alone, Temple is just trying to
live one day at a time in a post-apocalyptic world, where the undead
roam endlessly, and the remnant of mankind who have survived, at times,
seem to retain little humanity themselves.
This is the world she was born into. Temple has known nothing else. Her
journey takes her to far-flung places, to people struggling to maintain
some semblance of civilization - and to those who have created a new
world order for themselves.
When she comes across the helpless Maury, she attempts to set one thing
right, if she can just get him back to his family in Texas then maybe it
will bring redemption for some of the terrible things she's done in her
past. Because Temple has had to fight to survive, has done things that
she's not proud of and, along the road, she’s made enemies.
Now one vengeful man is determined that, in a world gone mad, killing
her is the one thing that makes sense . . . Alden Bell lives in New
York with his wife, the Edgar-award-winning novelist Megan Abbott. For
the past nine years, he has taught high school English at an Upper East
Side prep school (a modern orthodox co-educational Yeshiva). Since 2002,
he has also taught literature and cultural studies courses as an adjunct
professor at the New School. Prior to coming to New York, he grew up in
the heart of Orange County: Anaheim, home of Disneyland. He graduated
from Berkeley with a degree in English and a minor in creative writing,
where his instructors included Bharati Mukherjee, Leonard Michaels and
Maxine Hong Kingston. In 2000, he received his Master’s and Ph. D. in
English at New York University, specializing in twentieth-century
American and British literature.
