Last Last Chance

A Time Out New York Best Book of the YearNamed one of the 5 Best Writers Under 35 by the National Book FoundationIncludes an Author Interview and Discussion QuestionsA lethal strain of virus vanishes from a lab in Washington D.C. unleashing an epidemic--and the world thinks Lucy Clark''s father is to blame. The plague may be the least of Lucy''s problems. There''s her mother Isifrid a peddler of high-end hatwear who''s also a crackhead; her twelve-year-old half sister Hannah obsessed with disease and Christian fundamentalism; and Lucy''s lover Stanley who''s hell-bent on finding a womb for his dead wife''s frozen eggs. Finally there''s Lucy herself who tries to surmount her drug addiction and keep her family intact in this brilliant novel about survival and recovery opportunity and apocalypse and finally love and faith in an age of anxiety.