Total Oblivion




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Total Oblivion, More or Less


From Bantam Spectra/Ballantine
Released November 24, 2009
ISBN-10: 0-553-59254-8
ISBN-13: 978-0-553-59254-2

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In the summer between Macy Palmer’s junior and senior year of high school in Minnesota, Scythians, Thracians, and other ancient European tribes invade the Midwest. America becomes a ravaged land where modern technology barely works, a strange plague is rampant, and American citizens flee for their lives. Many end up doing what the Empire-which comes equally out of nowhere to keep the peace-tells them to do. Macy and her family find themselves torn from their ordinary lives and in a refugee camp just outside of Minneapolis. They end up making a desperate journey down the Mississippi River, which has mutated into a dangerous waterway.

Macy loves her dysfunctional family but has to make difficult decisions about them during almost unbearable times. Through her journeys, she finds medieval skyscrapers and fast food joints run by horse lords, befriends an enigmatic submarine captain on the river, and stumbles onto bizarre invasions of various sorts. None of those wonders, however, challenge her as much as just growing up, and keeping her compassion intact while doing so.






“A fast-paced, suspenseful dystopian picaresque, part Huck Finn and part bizarro-world Swiss Family Robinson.” -Kirkus Reviews



“Total Oblivion, More or Less is Alan DeNiro’s excellent debut novel, and an inversion and analysis of genre tropes…it is unwilling to do the expected. This is the very rare novel that satisfies on a multiple of levels.” -Bookpage



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