The stability of this difficult, but fulfilling life is threatened when a solar storm lights up the night, knocking planes out of the sky, decimating the electrical grid, and causing near complete technological failure. Jacob’s journal entries record a daily life filled with furniture making, preparation and preservation of food, all the basic chores of farm life, socializing after long days of work, and the rest of Sabbath worship. Or perhaps it would be better to say that he effectively holds in tension a foreboding atmosphere with a sense of quiet stability. From the outset, Williams strikes a balance between a sense of disease and tranquility. There is something oddly fitting about observing a widespread cultural and technological collapse through the journal entries of an Amish farmer. However, David Williams has taken this strange notion and executed it in a way that feels perfectly natural. There is nothing intuitive about the notion of a dystopian story delivered in the form of a meditative, epistolary novel. What Does it Takeīuy Now: Amazon ] Kindle ]
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