Title: The Breaking of Northwall
Description: Part of a series of 7 books about a series of adventures in long walks or travels by "loners"  in the post-apocalyptic United States.  Blends fighting adventures with philosophic travels of villagers and outsiders.  Be patient, the books are quite different, but build in a slow intelligent blend to a very meaningful final book.
Subjects: Visionaries, Exiles, Nuclear warfare, Regression (Civilization), Tribes, Fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general
Places: ruins of the united states; the great mississippi river, later books include the pacific northwest, ruins of new york
People: fiction
Time periods: several hundred years after a nuclear war