It deviated from the middle and twisted suddenly and disappeared. In places the mangled tarmac was marked with a broken white line, but it was no longer straight.
She walked, watching out for loose rubble. Beyond that it dropped off again, but she couldn't tell how far. "The road was flat for a few hundred yards. Treggiari's New York setting is compelling - dramatically different from the New York of today, but bearing reminders of what once was (like the Alice in Wonderland status in Central Park). Lucy fears for her personal safety and her autonomy, and she fears the return of the plague. But even that safety is fleeting, as Sweepers (armed soldiers in white hazmat suits) invade the community, and start stealing people away. When her shelter is threatened, she is forced to join Aidan's small community. Although she doesn't want to have anything to do with people, she meets a boy named Aidan, and can't help being intrigued by him. Sixteen-year-old Lucy is living on her own in a primitive shelter in what was once Central Park. Society has been decimated by global weather changes (flooding and droughts), followed by a smallpox epidemic that "reduced the global population to less than 1 percent of what it had been within three short months." 30 to 60-year olds were particularly hard hit, such that most of the survivors of the epidemic are either kids or the elderly. Jo Treggiari's Ashes, Ashes is a near-future post-apocalyptic young adult novel (one of many published in the past year or so, but one that I found appealing).
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