This book parallels the story in Life as We Knew It. Alex lives with his family in Manhattan, and is alone with his younger sisters when the moon is knocked out of its orbit, and storms, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions disrupt the earth and its atmosphere.
How to survive in the big city when your parents are missing, the world is freezing and food and heating oil are practically impossible to find? Long Island is devastated, Queens must be evacuated, and Manhattan is slowly sinking. Who gets the scarce resources that are available, and how do they get them? -- Jeri
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I enjoyed Life as We Knew It. But the location of The Dead and The Gone brings this a lot closer to home.
Thanks for the review Jeri. This is on my "must read" list.
There are lots of comparisons on the listserv. Here is one:
I brought home the ARC from midwinter and read it the same day then passed it along to my LAB. Several of them read it and then handed it off to one of our English teachers who is teaching an upper-classmen elective on apocalyptic literature and is having the kids read LAWKI. Many of the kids liked that there was more action in “The Dead and the Gone” and I agree that it is more cinematic, but I have to say (while I loved the new book) that LAWKI horrified and scared me in a way that “The Dead and the Gone” didn’t, maybe because it did go into so much explanation about the science of what was happening.
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