![]() ![]() She strides recklessly forward into the future, into the unfamiliar, knowing that there is risk in leaving behind the empty eggshell of what their parents left for them but leaving anyway. She learns to share herself with her sister. ![]() And arguably it's Eva that grows as changes: She drops her obsession with ballet, with a past she can never reclaim. But sometimes a book can be about the ways a character doesn't grow. There's a review that complains that Nell, the narrator, is basically the giver in a codependent relationship with her sister. I'm not entirely sure any of the characters develop in directions I'd want to follow. The apocalypse is just the painted backdrop to force them to figure out how to take care of themselves without the vast global supply chain. But the apocalypse is not the point-this could just as easily have been a period piece about two city slickers moving out to the frontier. It's post-apocalyptic but not in a zombies-or-aliens kind of way instead, a series of sharp blows is all it takes to knock down the elaborate structures of civility we've built for ourselves. Dreamlike in the same way and with similar themes as, though that's a hard novel to stack up against. ![]()
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