Caught in a Still Place

What if your friends flared out in a red aura of fever? People came to Cape Harrier at the far end of a two-lane on Florida's swamp coast to escape the pressures of society. Now society has been decimated by ecological crisis and an unnamed disease. In a landscape littered with the debris of physical and psychological devastation the few survivors must pull together and go on. Their environment is benign enough - but are they strong enough? Part prediction part parable this is a tale of sparse intensity which affirms the possibility of human survival in the face of the ultimate bleakness. Lerner breaks the mold. Candid understated self-effacing funny as stripped down as the emptied world. --Booklist