Many thanks to NetGalley and Knopf for gifting me a digital ARC of the latest book by Peter Heller – 4 stars!
Every year, Jess and Storey have made an annual pilgrimage to the most remote corners of the country, where they camp, hunt, and hike, leaving much from their long friendship unspoken. There’s political turmoil in Maine but the two don’t concern themselves with secession talk. But after weeks of hunting and being off the grid, they come across a small town and find it destroyed. They start trying to find their way home as well as what happened.
A haunting story of two friends, lifelong but still withholding secrets from each other, now completely dependent on each other for survival in a world they couldn’t have imagined. A dystopian look at what political unrest could do, the story is told in flashbacks from their childhood to present day as they try and flee for safety, now with a young girl along. Definitely makes you think, and the political strife contrasted with the beauty of nature is telling.
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