Scavenged Earth
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It's all about what you do with what you have left.
On the eve of nuclear war, Merry asks her half-billionaire Uncle Angus to pick up her commie best friend, Letty, en route to a cave to wait out nuclear fallout. But by the time they join Merry's family, they share a shameful secret.
Post-apocalypse, the close-knit group hunkers down at the abandoned SpaceX compound in Boca Chica, Texas, survives by scavenging and finds solace by escaping to an imaginary intergalactic dance club.
Stir-crazy years later, they risk a dangerous vacation on a mission to rescue a wall of hair, which they aim to launch into space.
This is the second book in the dystopian Scavenged Earth series.
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Sarah Withrow lives in Kingston, Ontario with her luxury-sized cats Melman and Gloria. In addition to writing, she enjoys coffee, walking, yoga, cooking and non-serious crafts. Back in the last millennium, her young-adult novel, Bat Summer, was nominated for Canada's prestigious Governor General's Award. Find her on TikTok @sarah_withrow.
