тАЬWhatтАЩs after Armageddon? No government, no laws, no infrastructure, no oil, no industryтАжand sometimes a sense of relief. In KunstlerтАЩs richly imagined World Made by Hand, the bone-weary denizens of Union GroveтАжmanage to plant a few seeds of human decency that bear fruit.тАЭ тАФCathleen Medwick, Oprah Daily
For the townspeople of Union Grove, New York, the future is nothing like they thought it would be. Following a cascading set of catastrophesтАФthe end of oil, climate change, resource wars, and global pandemicsтАФthey are doing whatever they can to get by. The outside world is largely unknown. There may be a president, and he may be in Minneapolis now, but people arenтАЩt sure. The townspeopleтАЩs challenges play out in a dazzling, fully realized world of abandoned highways and empty houses, horses working the fields, and riversтАФno longer pollutedтАФreplenished with fish.
Celebrated cultural critic and author of the runaway nonfiction bestseller The Long Emergency James Howard Kunstler returns with the World Made by Hand, an astonishing work of speculative fiction that brings to life what America might be, a few decades from now. This extraordinary novel full of love and loss, violence and power, sex and drugs, depression and desperation, but also plenty of hope, cements KunstlerтАЩs place as an important voice in the debate over our countryтАЩs future.