The Dead and the Gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer
Boston : Graphia/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008.
1st U.S. ed.
321 p. ; 18 cm.
Pfeffer wrote this book as a parallel novel to her Life as We Knew It (see post below). The former takes place in rural Pennsylvania, while this one follows the same global catastrophe in New York City. This one is a bit grittier: main characters die, parents disappear, and there are bodies aplenty - yet the story is really very similar. I would recommend either one, but not necessarily both unless the patron reading one was hugely engaged with it.
Reading this one, I did think about City of Thieves by David Benioff as a far more realistic story of how a city starves to death (re. Leningrad during WWII), and a title to recommend to a mature reader who liked The Dead and the Gone and was interested.
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