Whitbread-winner Jim Crace ("Quarantine") imagines a future post-apocalyptic America in which society has collapsed and its inhabitants scratch out a meager living by any primitive means necessary. The only reasonable hope for survival is a difficult trip east through the environmentally devastated land and passage by ship to Europe.

In bookstores now. This novel has received outstanding reviews from critics such as: Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Sun-Times and The Spectator.