Fiction.
The world is starting all over again..
As one member of the family records in her journal, The world is coming to an end...
This is a story of a fight to survive in the midst of pressures and threats and against long odds.
Sugar Mountain explores how such a calamity affects individual family members, their neighbors--many of whom are not prepared--and society as a whole.
As well as the ravaging influenza, they must contend with provisioning themselves and fending off a local well-armed and ruthless para-military group all the while hanging on to enough humanity to make their survival meaningful.
This is a story of one such extended family, the Arkwrights, and how, at their farm in western Massachusetts, they gather and stand together in the face of a relentless mass killer.
People who prepare for such possibilities are variously referred to as homesteaders, preppers, or survivalists.
And there is no cure.
Sugar Mountain is a cautionary tale about an all-too-possible catastrophe: a deadly flu epidemic that starts in China and spreads throughout the world, slowly at first, then unbelievably fast.
Fiction
