I've been meaning to read this since a year ago, when I first knew I'll be coming and living in Canada. But I keep putting it off whenever I read a couple of pages. There are so many characters introduced at the same time and it was a bit confusing. And there are also a lot of time scales going on, the story going back and forth the future time. So, I have to force myself to keep on reading and have faith that this is a good book! 
 It's a story about an apocalypse and the people that are involved in it. There is a pandemic caused by the Georgian Flu that almost swiped all of human existence into extinction. Whoever got the flu will be dead within 48 hours! However, a few lucky ones survived the flu. But it is clear that human civilization has already collapsed. And from there on, these people just trying to survive without electricity and power. All the cities turned into a ghost town. So these few people that had survived, they are connected in some way or another since the previous life. And the story is the unraveling of this complicated knot that ties all of them together. It's crazy to think how each person that we have ever met could somehow, someway affect our life. 
 So, this is what I appreciate about this book; the author wrote an apocalypse story that is actually realistic! Like this could actually happen, if our world was attacked by a deadly virus and humans are ceased to exist. She does not include all the nonsense about people having special powers and all that. The characters are real, vulnerable people that are finding means to survive and having hope in this new world, even though every thing that they once knew and loved was gone.