It is an engrossing journey, but one that I never completely believed. As they pass the rusted-out hulks of factories and the weed-choked arteries of disused highways, Crace leads us further and further away from our traditional American values of progress, technology and industriousness. She is the more observant and adaptable one. Margaret is older and used to staying beneath the radar. It used to be the safest place on earth." Franklin is young and impulsive, which soon leads to trouble. The couple will have many adventures along the way.Ĭrace swiftly sets the tone of his book and makes his readers uneasy in the prologue: "This used to be America, this river crossing in the ten-month stretch of land, this sea-to-sea. Margaret and Franklin will be traveling through an America reduced to medieval methods of living where everyone hopes to make it to the East Coast to pay for passage on a ship bound for Europe- the Promised Land. She is found by a young man named Franklin, and together they begin a long journey through an America laid waste by this disease they call the flux. Her head is shaved, and she is taken to a small stone cottage where she is left to recover. In the fishing village along the riverbank- a place called Ferrytown that likes to charge exorbitant fees to any stranger traveling through- Margaret is showing definite signs of sickness.
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