She hopes her fiance, a military veteran named Jack, can raise Harry after she, too, succumbs to the dust. After years without human contact, Katie and Harry are shocked by the arrival of a threatening newcomer, just as Katie’s persistent cough seems to have taken a turn for the worse. With hauntingly beautiful descriptions of the natural world, this challenging novel is tough and memorable.

They started to find plastic dust in rivers, soils and even the air – and also in the vast oceans, millions of pieces per square metre, washed there like it was a great big watery garbage dump. How an ecological disaster might look, how much we take for granted, and how continuing to damage the world we live in could lead to an unthinkable future. It’s journey of survival, and also an eventual physical journey that will make your heart pound and your pulse race. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. Preaching on the challenges of mental illness doesn’t do much good if only the choir can relate or understand what is happening.

He provided instructions on where he’s headed and how to start the car he’s thoughtfully left in the parking garage. Woman and son go on road trip across post apocalyptic landscape filled with nothingness, and are arguably too stupid to have survived the first fifty fucking miles, nevermind the remaining 300. He tells her of other survivors, especially in cities, and talks about getting a greenhouse working.

S. Geological Survey, leading to “immediate suspension of the National Volcano Early Warning System,” and there’s always someone around looking to monetize the natural disaster and the sasquatch-y onslaught that follows. We’ve all heard of microplastics, and Jackson expands on this fear even further with nanoparticles small enough to pass through cell walls. I wanted to know more about the microplastic storm, have it connect more firmly with what we're currently experiencing. The day of the storm, Jack had been working at a medical clinic in London, and was separated from Katie. There is so little left for her and Henry, that she figures it is worth finding out the truth about Jack.It was such a massive storm and so filled poisonous microfibers that it wiped out life as we know it. But they are always hungry, and they are always afraid, and Katie can no longer ignore the sharp pain in her lungs. Five years later, a stranger by the name of Sim appears out of the rain trying to escape a pack of wild dogs. We know Katie is raising a little boy named Harry and they've made their little apartment their entire world, and she's been keeping him safe and fed for 5 years. Outside their protected bubble, Katie and Harry encounter an altered world, full of new dangers, other survivors--both friend and foe--and many surprises.