Devastation
Devastation by Shandy Kurth
The Marquerings: starving and Fallon can't wait for things to get back to normal. His mother and sister live there also. His mother urges him to go with his sister and find the army as they can feed them.
The Flories: Emery and her brother lived in the basement-where their mother left them, just about out of food.
Desiree Baldi hid in a storm drain pipe in shock remembering the disfigurement of her father. Like how she uses phrases from the Bible to get her through her journey.
Guy Gallagher is with the Canadian army and has been told to just find those who can walk on their own. When he finds an injured woman he has to leave her behind...
The first two groups of kids do meet and travel together to WVA after the escaping the bombing.
Love how the story goes from group to group and what's happening at the same time from their area.
Fascinating part to me is that some of them have traveled through Ohio, towns I know because relatives live there.
Love where they get their ideas from and put them to good use. Difficult at times to see how they are suffering but it's almost like they were trained to take care of themselves with what they find. Even what we would think is a useless they find a worthwhile use for.
Some get captured and are brainwashed and work in the medical tent, some packaging foods from the troops. Tough to see what they go through to survive.
Throughout the book some are praying, others have given up on being saved from God but after a time they are all praying in their own way, they believe in God again and he will help see them through this til they reach the safe zone.
Glad there is another, if not several others.