It's the summer of 1962, and Scott and his friends spend their days
playing baseball and thinking about girls. But the threat of nuclear war
looms over everything they do, and they are haunted by the idea that
they could all be dead tomorrow.
Even though the possibility of war is all anyone talks about, Scott's
dad is the only one in the neighborhood who actually prepares for the
worst, building a bomb shelter to protect his family and stocking it
with enough supplies to keep them alive for two critical weeks. The
neighbors scoff, but then, in the middle of the night in late October,
the unthinkable happens. Suddenly ten people are crammed into a shelter
built for four. Ten people eating the food meant for four, breathing the
air meant for four. Ten people struggling to survive--but what will
await them when they eventually emerge?
Internationally bestselling author Todd Strasser has written his most
impressive and personal novel to date, painstakingly yet sensitively
exploring the terrifying what-ifs of one of the most explosive moments
in history.