num_pages: 262
description: A 9.2-magnitude earthquake strikes the West Coast. Buildings collapse. Bridges fall. Nine dams fail and flood Oregons Willamette Valley. The city of Eugene is suddenly submerged underwater with only a few neighborhoods above waterline still left standing.Fifteen-year-old Cielo Wolfgang has been living with her mom in a rented garage in Eugene. Separated when the quake hit Cielo hides from emergency workers as they evacuate residents determined to find her mother in her disaster-ravaged neighborhood. As Cielo picks through the aftermath for anything she can use to survive she discovers shes not as alone as she thinks. An extremist alt-right cult called The Collection Of Redeemed Souls has been rounding up survivors and when they find out about Cielo her solitary existence is shattered as she scrambles to stay a step ahead of them. In the vein of Dry and Not a Drop to Drink and based on extensive research of the Cascadia Faultline AMERICAN AFTERLIFE is a gripping and unflinching thriller about a young girl desperately trying to survive in a frightening and all too plausible near future.Note: This is not a horror novel.
language: English
title: American Afterlife
publisher: Crooked Lane