The lightest object in the universe : a novel / by Kimi Eisele.
An original post-apocalyptic novel about trying to make a better life and community after all of our modern conveniences fall away.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781616207939
- Physical Description: 325 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2019.
- Copyright: ©2019.
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Subject: | Regression (Civilization) > Fiction. Voyages and travels > Fiction. Man-woman relationships > Fiction. |
Genre: | Apocalyptic fiction. Love stories. |
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- 13 of 14 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect.
- 1 of 1 copy available at Grand Forks and District Public Library. (Show)
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Grand Forks | FIC EIS (Text) | 35142002681335 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Castlegar Public Library | FIC EIS (Text) | 35146002150639 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Creston Public Library | FIC EIS (Text)
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35140100053191 | Fiction | Volume hold | Storage | - |
Greenwood Public Library | FIC EIS (Text) | 35141000232067 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Kitimat Public Library | Eis (Text) | 32665002197046 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Mackenzie Public Library | EIS (Text) | 35192000392005 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Nelson Public Library | F EIS (Text) | 3514830031242 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Quesnel Branch | EIS (Text) | 33923006118396 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Sechelt Public Library | F EISE (Text) | 33260100035147 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Smithers Public Library | F EIS (Text) | 35101011036196 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
In a powerless world after a global economic collapse, an East coast man desperate to reunite with the woman he loves on the West coast encounters a menagerie of lost souls, opportunists, and would-be rebuilders on a cross-country railroad journey. - Baker & Taylor
In a powerless world after a global economy collapse, an East Coast man desperate to reunite with the woman he loves encounters a menagerie of lost souls, opportunists and would-be rebuilders on a cross-country railroad journey. A first novel. - Workman Press.'A triumphant story for anyone with a shred of faith left in the human spirit.' 'David McGlynn, author of One Day You'll Thank MeWhat if the end times allowed people to see and build the world anew? This is the landscape that Kimi Eisele creates in her surprising and original debut novel. Evoking the spirit of such monumental love stories as Cold Mountain and the creative vision of novels like Station Eleven, The Lightest Object in the Universe imagines what happens after the global economy collapses and the electrical grid goes down.
In this new world, Carson, on the East Coast, is desperate to find Beatrix, a woman on the West Coast who holds his heart. Working his way along a cross-country railroad line, he encounters lost souls, clever opportunists, and those who believe they'll be saved by an evangelical preacher in the middle of the country. While Carson travels west, Beatrix and her neighbors begin to construct the kind of cooperative community that suggests the end could be, in fact, a bright beginning.
Without modern means of communication, will Beatrix and Carson find their way to each other, and what will be left of the old world if they do? The answers may lie with a fifteen-year-old girl who could ultimately decide the fate of the lovers.
The Lightest Object in the Universe is a moving and hopeful story about resilience and adaptation and a testament to the power of community, where our best traits, born of necessity, can begin to emerge. - Workman Press.An original post-apocalyptic novel about trying to make a better life and community after all of our modern conveniences fall away.