Thus Alex, Bri and Julie are settling down for bed when their electricity goes out, though not atypical for their neck of the woods in a hot New York summer. The only other member of the Morales immediate family is the eldest son, Carlos, who is enlisted in the marines. Their father is in Puerto Rico for their grandmother’s funeral, and their mother is working a late emergency shift at a hospital in Queens. Alex’s two younger sisters, fourteen-year-old Brianna and twelve-year-old Julie, are already at home waiting for him. When he’s done for the night, he closes up shop and returns to his family’s apartment building, where his father is landlord. A smart, driven young man of Puerto Rican descent, Alex spends his evenings working for extra money at the local pizza parlor in New York City. The dead and the gone follows seventeen-year-old Alex Morales on the eve of the disaster. So it goes without saying that when I discovered its sister book the dead and the gone had been released earlier this year, I wasted no time getting my hands on a copy, eager to see how it would compare. I loved Life As We Knew It–it is easily one of the best books I have read in 2008 (you can read that review HERE). With haunting themes of family, faith, personal change, and courage, this powerful new novel explores how a young man takes on unimaginable responsibilities. When Alex’s parents disappear in the aftermath of tidal waves, he must care for his two younger sisters, even as Manhattan becomes a deadly wasteland, and food and aid dwindle.
Now this harrowing companion novel examines the same events as they unfold in New York City, revealed through the eyes of seventeen-year-old Puerto Rican Alex Morales.
Susan Beth Pfeffer’s Life as We Knew It enthralled and devastated readers with its brutal but hopeful look at an apocalyptic event–an asteroid hitting the moon, setting off a tailspin of horrific climate changes. Why did I read this book: I loved the first book so much that I immediately combed all my local bookstores for the dead and the gone. Book 3, This World We Live In will be a direct sequel to both companion books and is to be released in 2010. the dead and the gone is the companion novel to book 1 of the trilogy, Life As We Knew It and details the same catastrophic events with different characters, from a different perspective. Stand alone or series: Book 2 of the ‘Moon Crush’ trilogy, but can be read as a stand alone novel.
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