![]() ![]() It’s a simply written book, almost leaning to YA in its slow, deliberate sentences and plain vocabulary. The main character, Evan, is developed only to the extent he must be, and the language forgoes decoration and lyricism almost entirely. The remote community must fend for itself, and build a new way of life from the remains of the old. No one knows why, and no one arrives to explain. ![]() The trucks delivering groceries don’t come. ![]() First phones go down, and then TV and radio, and then power. Rice isolates and stretches this moment, setting his novel in a remote community and giving the story several months to unfold. It’s not a preface to apocalypse, and it’s not the postscript it takes place during the moment in which a society realizes that one kind of life is over, and another kind of life is going to be the norm. Moon of the Crusted Snow is a book on the cusp. ![]()
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