Without a family and fearing the Sweepers who retrieve the piles of charred corpses - her own family among them - Lucy hid in Central Park, making an isolated refuge of woven branches "like the snug, domed nests the field mice made themselves out of grass stalks."įor a year she honed her survival skills with only her father’s knife as a weapon. Thirteen-year-old Lucy was among that 1 percent. Lightning fires were followed by the “Long Dry” drought.īut it was the resurgence of the pox that, within five short months, left only 1 percent of the global population to maneuver the rubble of the city. Rope bridges hung above the once busy streets like webs, connecting one demolished building to another. Avenues turned into gorges and rivers during the “Long Wet” of monsoons, riptides and flash floods. New York City was only a landscape of ruins after a series of earthquakes toppled buildings and swallowed storefronts and neighborhoods. “ASHES, ASHES,” by Jo Treggiari, Scholastic, $17.99, 341 pages (ages 12 and up)
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