Like "Almost Invisible", this one is also a quick little read, and it takes place on Thanksgiving Day over the course of 75 years.
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Society changes in tiny ways and in huge leaps every day, and all of that is more normal than not. Think of the huge changes we've seen in the last hundred years. The last fifty. The last ten. Anything is possible. Most things are probable.
The reality is that under stress, people are just as likely to behave well as to behave badly. Yet most "end of the world" stories assume the worst as the fictitious guns-blazing vigilante rides in to save the day either alone or with big-hearted big-muscled back up, all wielding an arsenal to literally die for as their pretend society plunges (oddly immediately) into total chaos.
What about the small ones? The quiet and unassuming souls who have no power to begin with? Where are their life experiences recorded? Are they less important? Less memorable?
When my grandmother was 8, her house didn't have electricity, a telephone, or running water.
When my mother was 8, she rode the milk route with the milkman because she loved the horse that pulled his wagon.
I remember getting our first color TV when I was about 8, and when my daughter was 8, no one had home computers or video games or cell phones.
Follow four young girls- four generations of a family, through the next few possible phases of American life.
On Thanksgiving Day.
Backwards.
The heroes make the story books.
The rest of us make history.
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