So few single men now exist that women (even Jane Ann, wife of the Congregational minister) are shared between friends.
Premature death, in fact, has claimed a substantial part of the populace, including Robert’s daughter and his wife, who fell victim to an outbreak of encephalitis.
The devastation has brought with it other effects, most notably the Mexican flu. Kunstler’s latest novel fictionalizes some of the material covered in his nonfiction work The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (2005), which examined how a decline in oil production could have cataclysmic repercussions on modern industrial culture.Īfter a bomb exploded in Los Angeles (attributed to an “act of Jihad”), narrator Robert Earle and his family moved to Union Grove, N.Y., but the economy has since collapsed and the citizens have found themselves atavistically involved in long-lost pursuits such as subsistence farming.
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