Send us your Feedback For our privacy policy, click here . For our user agree- ment, click here . It's the day after tomorrow, and Williams takes us on a very bumpy ride. His disaster is an earthquake. The fault line has been quiet for almost 200 years.
Levees frame the river, turning former flood plains into farm and residential land.
Most of the people in the novel are completely unaware they live in a danger zone, which makes their situation all the more grim when the quake hits, because almost no one is prepared. Jason, a teen-ager newly moved to Missouri from Los Angeles, is stuck in deep angst. His mom has grounded him from the Internet and taken away his in-line skates, and he is bored silly. He wants to live on the edge. Floating along on his drowned neighbor's boat, he meets Nick, an unemployed defense engineer.