He and Darla, now a full-fledged couple, head back toward Iowa, though the trail is lukewarm at best. When bandits attack the farm, Alex and Darla defeat them, but discover that one of them has a rifle that belonged to Alex’s dad.Īlex is certain that something’s happened to his parents, and he’s determined to find them once and for all. It’s like green gold in the post-volcanic world, since the high vitamin C content prevents scurvy.Īll the while, they’ve hoped that Alex’s parents would return after realizing that he wasn’t back in Iowa.
They’ve successfully built a greenhouse to harvest kale, which they use as currency to trade in the nearest town. Unfortunately, when they arrived at the farm in Illinois, Alex’s parents had already left in search for him, leaving only his little sister behind with his aunt, uncle and cousins.Īlex and the mechanically-inclined Darla have been a tremendous help on his uncle’s farm. Alex met eighteen-year-old Darla on the way, lucky for him, because she saved his life more than once. Sixteen-year-old Alex Halprin spent the entire first book traveling from his home in Iowa to his uncle’s farm in Illinois on foot to find his parents, who had been visiting there without him. People everywhere are resorting to unthinkable acts to find food and basic necessities in the midst of a perpetual winter. lies under a thick layer of ash and snow. In this teen dystopian sequel to Ashfall, it’s been ten months since a supervolcano erupted near Yellowstone National Park.
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