Scribe: A Novel

"Scribe is a lean, hard wolf of a book. Vicious, merciless and with blood in its teeth. It is the story of a woman who writes letters for people in a post-apocalyptic future where war and disease have taken almost everything away and made everything that remains dangerous, untrustworthy or both. In brief, brutal passages, Alyson Hagy sketches a world that’s like an Appalachian fairy tale from the future, complete with boggy magic, mysterious men, powerful women and a quiet, mythic furiousness unlike anything else you’ll read this year."