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The End We Start From
Atlantic. Nov. 2017. 160p. ISBN 9780802126894. $22; ebk. ISBN 9780802189066. F
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London is under water. People are fleeing the city in panic. An unnamed narrator escapes with her husband and new baby to the family farm, where they survive for a brief time before supplies run out. Then, along with many others, they leave their safe surroundings for the uncertainty of life on the road, eventually ending up in a communal encampment. When the camp also becomes uninhabitable, they continue northward from one shelter to another, until the husband goes off in search of provisions and doesn't return. The wife then links up with another young mother whose husband has disappeared, allowing each of them to help the other with child care and other necessary chores. Amid the chaos, they are able to see their young children grow and flourish just as they might have done in better circumstances.
VERDICT The story may seem familiar—the dystopian nightmare, the mass migration, food shortages, an uncertain future—but debut novelist Hunter's spare prose and luminous writing give it a fresh immediacy. [See Prepub Alert, 5/22/17.]
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