Found: YA Book walking home in the apocalypse
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1callmeverity
Hi all! I have been trying to remember anything about this book for like the past 6 years and googling it periodically but I can't find anything about it anywhere.
It's a YA fiction book that I picked up from a San Diego public library sometime between 2010-2014. I think it must have been written in the 2000s or the early 2010s. I read so many books back then and didn't pay too much attention to title or author.
The plot is about a girl in the United States who is far away from home, maybe in college or living with a relative or in a high school that is for some reason far away from her family. Some apocalyptic event occurs which leaves her on her own and she decides to walk all the way back home to try to get to her family. I think there was definitely some sort of strained relationship there. I know she sleeps in the forest on the side of the road at some point, and she forages in trash cans. A lot of the book is kind of just her walking, hiding, and reflecting. When she gets back home, I think she learns that her family either died in whatever the apocalyptic event was, or left without her. She spends some time hiding in her old family home and looking at things her family left behind.
I don't know how else to describe the book but it had a deep sense of kind of resourcefulness and loneliness. I remember reading it around 2012 when everyone thought the world was ending and it was comforting in a very melancholy sort of way.
I know that the book wasn't super long, maybe in the range of 200 pages? YA, paperback. Again, I don't know how else to describe the cover except for kind of lonely feeling? I think maybe it had sort of muted colors and like a path or a solitary figure or something? It didn't stick out too much to me. But I could be just conflating what I remember of the book with an image. I think it was written by a female author.
YEARS after I read it I still feel like it has such an impact on the kinds of stories I look for, and what kind of stories I write. I really want to go back and read it now. Does anyone remember this book?
It's a YA fiction book that I picked up from a San Diego public library sometime between 2010-2014. I think it must have been written in the 2000s or the early 2010s. I read so many books back then and didn't pay too much attention to title or author.
The plot is about a girl in the United States who is far away from home, maybe in college or living with a relative or in a high school that is for some reason far away from her family. Some apocalyptic event occurs which leaves her on her own and she decides to walk all the way back home to try to get to her family. I think there was definitely some sort of strained relationship there. I know she sleeps in the forest on the side of the road at some point, and she forages in trash cans. A lot of the book is kind of just her walking, hiding, and reflecting. When she gets back home, I think she learns that her family either died in whatever the apocalyptic event was, or left without her. She spends some time hiding in her old family home and looking at things her family left behind.
I don't know how else to describe the book but it had a deep sense of kind of resourcefulness and loneliness. I remember reading it around 2012 when everyone thought the world was ending and it was comforting in a very melancholy sort of way.
I know that the book wasn't super long, maybe in the range of 200 pages? YA, paperback. Again, I don't know how else to describe the cover except for kind of lonely feeling? I think maybe it had sort of muted colors and like a path or a solitary figure or something? It didn't stick out too much to me. But I could be just conflating what I remember of the book with an image. I think it was written by a female author.
YEARS after I read it I still feel like it has such an impact on the kinds of stories I look for, and what kind of stories I write. I really want to go back and read it now. Does anyone remember this book?
2callmeverity
I was talking with a friend about it and I think I remembered another part. I think the girl traveled for a while with another person. (I think she may have been a pregnant waitresses?) I can't remember if they got separated or the other person died, or the other person veered off to go find their own family.
3konallis
Safekeeping by Karen Hesse?
4callmeverity
>3 konallis: You found it! I feel like I'm going to cry, I had started to wonder if I'd made it up. Thank you so, so much. You made my entire day/week/month! Thank you!!
