Edward Bloor -- A Plauge Year -- Gables

Start: Dec 10 2011 3:30 pm

It's 2001 and zombies have taken over Tom's town. Meth zombies. It starts small, with petty thefts of cleaning supplies and Sudafed from the supermarket where Tom works. But by year's end there will be ruined, hollow people on every street corner. Meth will unmake the lives of friends and teachers and parents. It will fill the prisons, and the morgues. Tom's always been focused on getting out of his depressing coal mining town, on planning his escape to a college somewhere sunny and far away. But as bits of his childhood erode around him, he finds it's not so easy to let go. Tom begins to see some reasons to stay, to see that even lost causes can be worth fighting for. In A Plague Year (Knopf, $15.99) Edward Bloor – author of perennial favorite Tangerine -- has created a searing portrait of a place and a family and a boy who survive a harrowing plague year, and become stronger than before.