But Not for Long

I loved her first book "You're Not You," so I couldn't wait to get my hands on this second book. She develops the characters so thoroughly that I can see them and follow them around. There are so many touchingly painful happenings in this description of a very short period of time where everyone is caught in a sort of strange time warp of an extended blackout. I need to compare thoughts with someone about the ending. I will happily await her third book.

This is basically a character study of four people. Three of them are living together in a cooperative house in Madison Wisconsin, and the fourth is an alcoholic husband of one of the coop-ers. It takes place over three days during a power outage that affects the whole city and a major portion of the region. Other catastrophic events also portend – a gas shortage, disappeared honey bees, references to flooding on the coasts. The alcoholic is trying to quit (well, sometimes he seems to be).
The characters are interesting and the tone is not at all preachy. I enjoyed the read.