A terrifying roll call of man's sins against the earth as she plunges toward a future of sterility and filth. Doomsday...the fateful time when the trees and grass will burn up, the creatures of the sea will die, the air will fill with smoke, the daylight will vanish, and a third of mankind will perish. How close are we to that day of disaster Saint John foretold?
"Bohjalian (whose many novels include the Oprah favorites “Midwives” and “The Sandcastle Girls”) writes about the nuclear aftermath in a scrupulously realistic way. He doesn’t blow the slightest apocalyptic or dystopian wind on those fuel rods. It’s nonetheless a scary scenario, the frightening flip side of every Homer Simpson mishap that millions of us have laughed at.”
“They said the nuclear plant was totally safe. They were wrong.”
“Thirteen-year-old Nye learns about relationships and death when fifteen-year-old Ezra, who was exposed to radiation leaked from a nearby nuclear plant, comes to stay at her grandmother’s Vermont farmhouse.”
For young adults.
A whistleblower who calls attention to pollution in his town but becomes the enemy of his peers who feel the town will suffer due to his actions.
This 130 year old Norwegian play is still relevant today.
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