Alone

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The bits of information that Maddie can gather make no sense, and there is no one around to ask what happened.

Daniel Schreiber’s Alone: Reflections on Solitary Living was a surprise bestseller in Germany when it was first published in 2021, now translated into English by Ben Fergusson.

I was lucky enough to receive an advanced reader copy of this story, and I was absolutely blown away. That's how long Coyote and her dad, Rodeo, have lived on the road in an old school bus, criss-crossing the nation. Sir Ernest Shackleton's attempt to traverse the Antarctic was cut short when his ship, Endurance, became trapped in ice.

The moving story of an orphan, determined to know her own history, who discovers the true meaning of family. If this were a bleaker book, maybe you'd see piles of bodies that the military had shot because they didn't want to go. Cassie Forrest isn't surprised to learn that the day she’s decided to get her life together is also the day the world ends. She has decided that the only way to fix things is to go back in time to the moment before her brother changed all their lives forever - and stop him.With only her neighbor’s dog George for company, she learns to navigate life alone, providing for herself and George the best she can.