num_pages: 296
description: An astounding tale of a dangerous quest a talking dog and fragmented fairy tales in an eerie post-climate collapse future.A long time ago the Vanderchucks fled the growing climate disaster and followed their neighbours into the Underground. Jesse Vanderchuck thought it was the end. Of the world. Of life. Eventually Jesses little sister Olivia ran away and Jesse started picking through trash heaps in Torontos abandoned subway tunnels. Day in day out.Now years later Jesse meets a talking dog. Fighting illness and the hostile world aboveground Jesse and Doggo embark on a fools errand to find Olivia  or die trying. Along the way Jesse spins a series of fairy tales from threads of memories weaving together the past present and future into stories of brave girls of cunning lads of love in the face of wickedness and of hope in the midst of despair.
language: English
title: The Doomsday Book of Fairy Tales
publisher: Dundurn Press