An oddly hopeful yet quietly brutal book about living past the end of the world.”-Brian Evenson, author of The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell Ballard’s The Burning World, From the Caves is about persistence in the face of collapse and disaster, the roles we fall into in relation to one another, and how we rise to meet new roles when necessity demands. It’s both a devastating cautionary tale and a terrible and beautiful testimony for the power of stories to transcend through impossible grief.” -Doug Lawson, author of Bigfoots in Paradise “From the Caves hits like a postapocalyptic punch in the gut. From the Caves presents the past, present, and future in tandem, reshaping ancient and modern ideas of death and motherhood, grief and hope, endings and beginnings. As the devastating heat of summer grows, so does the poison in Teller’s injured leg and the danger of Tie’s imminent labor, food and water dwindling while the future becomes increasingly dependent on the words Sky gleans from the dead, stories pieced together from recycled knowledge, fragmented histories, and half-buried creation myths. Environmental catastrophe has driven four people inside the dark throat of a cave: Sky, a child coming of age Tie, pregnant and grieving Mark, a young man poised to assume primacy and Teller, an elder, holder of stories.
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