Salvation City (Paperback)

from zibilee

Cole is living in a world ravaged by disease. In a future not far removed from our own, all hell has broken loose and a pandemic flu virus has decimated the world population. After having lost both his parents to the illness and barely surviving it himself, Cole is placed in an orphanage and forg...

from nancyewhite

A sparely written post-pandemic dystopia. By focusing on the experience of a teenage boy in what seems to be the very near future, Nunez keeps the story of a 1918-like flu simple while amplifying its horror. The protagonist, Cole Vining, goes from living with literary, well-educated atheist paren...

from fuzzy_patters

Salvation City is about an adolescent boy, Cole, who survives a world wide pandemic. Unfortunately for him, his atheist, left-wing, ethnically Jewish parents do not, and he ends up living with a right-wing, Christian fundamentalist preacher, Pastor Wyatt, and his wife Tracy. The novel centers aro...

from TiffanyHickox

Salvation City explores the experiences of a maturing boy named Cole who, during a worldwide and devastating flu pandemic, loses both of his parents and finds himself taken in by Fundamentalists. Here he struggles through the emotional rollercoaster of puberty, all while trying to come to terms w...

from lauralkeet

After thirteen-year-old Cole Vining lost both parents in a flu pandemic, he was taken in by Wyatt and Tracy, a young evangelical couple living in Salvation City. Cole's family had only recently moved from Chicago to southern Indiana when the pandemic hit. Cole had been sick, but survived, althoug...