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In a not-so-distant future, a climate refugee named Elon who has been traveling alone, finds the Kenneally Center, an abandoned property where a mysterious older man offers him shelter. Over the next few days, two pairs and another man find their way to the Center, and the group decides to trust one another, collecting and sharing food and providing companionship to one another. The group decides to tell each other stories, and each person's contribution helps the group to understand one another and themselves. However, a new arrival threatens upheaval to the new way of life they have established.
About the author
Mark S. Johnson, a health and science reporter for
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, shared the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting. He has been a Pulitzer finalist on three other occasions. His reporting has been anthologized in three editions of The Best American Newspaper Narratives.
Before moving to Milwaukee, Johnson was a reporter at
The Providence (R.I.) Journal-Bulletin,
The Rockford (Il) Register Star,
The Haverhill (Mass.) Gazette, and weekly Provincetown (Mass.) Advocate.
He is a graduate of The University of Toronto.
This is his first novel.
He and his wife, the writer and editor Mary-Liz Shaw, rode out the pandemic with their son, composer Evan Johnson, and his partner, Socks Whitmore, at their home in Fox Point, Wisconsin.
