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Apr 01, 2018orange_lobster_23 rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
A finalist for the National Book Award , which was was/is widely read with critical acclaim did not appeal to me. A dystopian genre set in Toronto and Northern Michigan covers a pre-and post pandemic world, centered mainly around a narcissistic aging actor whose on-stage death coincides with the start of the pandemic. The characters loosely connected with this man struggle with grieving of the lost world they knew, and attempts to re-build their lives in an unfamiliar world. I felt better development of the survivors would have engaged the reader (me, anyway) more and feel more of a stake in their re-creation. Again, my criticism appears to be in the minority and shouldn't deter a curious reader