Sugar Mountain - Acorn, Alfred
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Fiction. In 2013, Pleasure Boat Studio published a novel about a deadly virus that started in China and spread around the world. Set in western Massachusetts, it is prescient not only about what is happening now, but perhaps about what's in store if, and when, Covid -19 mutates. SUGAR MOUNTAIN is a cautionary tale about an all-too-possible catastrophe: a deadly flu epidemic that starts in China and spreads throughout the world, slowly at first, then unbelievably fast. And there is no cure. People who prepare for such possibilities are variously referred to as "homesteaders," "preppers," or…mehr

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Fiction. In 2013, Pleasure Boat Studio published a novel about a deadly virus that started in China and spread around the world. Set in western Massachusetts, it is prescient not only about what is happening now, but perhaps about what's in store if, and when, Covid -19 mutates. SUGAR MOUNTAIN is a cautionary tale about an all-too-possible catastrophe: a deadly flu epidemic that starts in China and spreads throughout the world, slowly at first, then unbelievably fast. And there is no cure. People who prepare for such possibilities are variously referred to as "homesteaders," "preppers," or "survivalists." This is a story of one such extended family, the Arkwrights, and how, at their farm in western Massachusetts, they gather and stand together in the face of a relentless mass killer. As well as the ravaging influenza, they must contend with provisioning themselves and fending off a local well-armed and ruthless para-military group all the while hanging on to enough humanity to make their survival meaningful. SUGAR MOUNTAIN explores how such a calamity affects individual family members, their neighbors-many of whom are not prepared-and society as a whole. This is a story of a fight to survive in the midst of pressures and threats and against long odds. As one member of the family records in her journal, "The world is coming to an end...The world is starting all over again."
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BIO: Born Alfred Denny, I grew up in the docklands of Merseyside, in the green fields of Ireland, and on a dairy farm in South Chelmsford, Massachusetts. I graduated from Harvard and have worked as a journalist, teacher, travel director (of the Harvard Museum of Natural History), and safari guide, among other things. Starting with Houghton Mifflin's publication of THE PULL OF THE EARTH in 1985, I have published 14 novels to date. For a profile on the MURDER IN THE MUSEUM OF MAN series, click on http://harvardmagazine.com/2010/07/curating-murders.