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A postapocalyptic road trip and a quest for redemption.It's 2048, and the world has been ravaged by a lethal virus. With few exceptions, only the young have survived. Cities and infrastructures have been destroyed, and the natural world has reclaimed the landscape in surprising ways, with herds of wild camels roaming the American West and crocodiles that glow neon green lurking in the rivers.Will Collins, the last surviving resident of a Buddhist retreat center in Colorado, receives an urgent and mysterious request: to deliver a potential cure to a scientist on the West Coast. So Will sets out into an unknown and perilous world, haunted by dreams of the woman he once loved, in a rusted-out pickup pulled by two mules. He doesn't have much time - temperatures are rising to lethal heights, a hit man is on his tail, and armed militias patrol the roads.
About the Author
Cary Groner received his MFA in fiction from the University of Arizona, and has had fiction appear in Glimmer Train, Mississippi Review, and Tampa Review, among others. He has worked for two decades as a journalist covering medicine and healthcare, and studied meditation and Buddhist philosophy with Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche, a renowned Tibetan lama, for more than fifteen years. He lives with his wife in the Bay Area. "
