The City, Not Long After
“In Ms. Murphy’s skillful hands, the showdown between art and power takes on mythic dimensions while remaining rooted in the vivifying specifics of character and place. No one comes out of this confrontation unchanged, including the reader.”
New York Times
The city is San Francisco. “Not long after” refers to a devastating worldwide plague that has wiped out most of the planet’s population.
The people who survive in San Francisco are mostly artists, hippies, and misfits who pull together a viable community and transform the city. But when a military general determines to reunite the remnants of the once great United States and sets his sights on San Francisco, the people resist, believing they have already discovered a better way of life. The new and artistically creative guerrilla warfare they stage will make for one of the oddest battles ever fought.
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