wiglaf - reviewed on 10/12/2013 + 16 more book reviews

I'll be honest. I first read this book in part because of the somewhat suspiciously negative reviews I saw by some here who were uncomfortable with this book's views on race. One even called its author a racist. That simply didn't match up with what I knew of the author. That view seemed even more completely nonsensical to me after reading this book. This novel seems like a somewhat flawed but well-intentioned story of a racially diverse, post-apocalyptic survivors of an America divided who unite in a common cause for variety of reasons, some spiritual, some humanitarian, and others with far more familial motivations. While the destruction of America was motivated in part by race in this story, its story line is reminiscent in certain ways of better known novels like Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz, Frank's Alas, Babylon, or Orson Scott Card's short story collection Folk of the Fringe. While inferior to those stories it isn't a bad story, though those who see racism against white people(or pretend to see it) in the idea that the potential for such damaging white racism isn't entirely located in the past may want to look elsewhere.

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