The Dead and the Gone

#520
Title: The Dead and the Gone
Author: Susan Beth Pfeffer
Publisher: Graphia
Year: 2009
321 pages

A companion to the post-apocalyptic Life As We Knew It, this young adult novel tells the story of the same events from the experience of a teenage boy in New York City. Though he is male, I found this version more frightening, perhaps because there were more people but fewer trustworthy adults around.

I do have one nagging criticism, which is that trying to break in through the doors of apartments in NYC is impossible. Go to the basement and get a fire axe, then chop through an interior wall, or rappel from a higher floor and kick in a window.