Friday, November 04, 2022

The City Where We Once Lived by Eric Barnes


Started: 11/4/2022

Finished: DNF

Year: 2018

Pages: 234

Genre: literature

Grade: F

Reason for reading: library book

Type: hardcover

Blurb (from Amazon): "In a near future where climate change has severely affected weather and agriculture, the North End of an unnamed city has long been abandoned in favor of the neighboring South End. Aside from the scavengers steadily stripping the empty city to its bones, only a few thousand people remain, content to live quietly among the crumbling metropolis. Many, like the narrator, are there to try to escape the demons of their past. He spends his time observing and recording the decay around him, attempting to bury memories of what he has lost.

"But it eventually becomes clear that things are unraveling elsewhere as well, as strangers, violent and desperate alike, begin to appear in the North End, spreading word of social and political deterioration in the South End and beyond. Faced with a growing disruption to his isolated life, the narrator discovers within himself a surprising need to resist losing the home he has created in this empty place. He and the rest of the citizens of the North End must choose whether to face outsiders as invaders or welcome them as neighbors."

Opinion: Just not a fan of the writing style and the blahness of everything. 

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