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Violence
A lot
Graphic and sustained depictions of violent death, mass starvation, disease fatalities, and brutal community defense
Language
Some
Some coarse language in extreme survival situations
Sexual Content
Barely any
No significant sexual content
Substance Use
Some
Medication scarcity depicted as a survival crisis; no recreational substance use
Emotional Intensity
A lot
Deeply psychologically intense; explores the trauma of watching a community disintegrate and making impossible triage decisions including deaths of children
What this book is about
When an EMP attack plunges America back to pre-industrial conditions overnight, a college professor in a small North Carolina town must lead his community through starvation, disease, violence, and impossible choices as civilization collapses around them.
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Graphic depictions of mass death from starvation and disease
Brutal violence as society collapses
Deaths of children and vulnerable people throughout
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