The Last Town on Earth

from auntmarge64

In 1918, Commonwealth is a young logging town in rural Washington, founded by a mill owner and his socialist wife sickened by anti-union violence. They are determined to give workers a greater share in profits and improved living and work conditions, a stance which has made them hated by mill own...

from DeltaQueen50

The Last Town on Earth by Thomas Mullen is a story about an isolated logging town in the state of Washington whose reaction to the 1918 flu epidemic was to close themselves off from the outside world. Blocking the only road into town and posting guards, they thought they would be able to keep the...

from BCCJillster

A morally challenging, but NOT stuffy, book, if you let yourself consider the choices these folks had to make when faced with the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918. A small mill town in the US Northwest votes to impose a reverse quarantine to keep the flu out and then has to deal with the consequences...

from janerawoof

Prescient for the times we are living in right now with the pandemic; amazing how the author got so much right in his descriptions of the disease, although this book was written in 2006. Set in the fictional logging town of Commonwealth, Washington, it tells the story of a small town that quarant...

from MayaP

This starts out slowly - achingly so. I gave up twice but on the third attempt, finally made it past the first third and that's when the thing really takes off and a corking good tale emerges. The characters are remarkably well done, rounded and real, the writing in general is tremendous; twice, ...