** spoiler alert ** 
 This will probably be one of my all time favorite books. It is the story of Isherwood "Ish" Williams who awakens in a post-apoc world where most of the earth's population has suddenly died....except for a few stragglers. After a cross country trip where he finds only a handful of people alive...but nobody he'd like to spend the rest of his life with...he returns to his boyhood home in California and gradually starts his tribe and does his part in carrying forward the human race on earth. Ish is an observer, a thinker, a worrier, and in the book you are privy to his thoughts and his struggles and his observations on how the earth has survived the end of civilization and the almost extinction of man. Men go and come, but the Earth abides. Great book.