In a Handful of Dust

from brandileigh2003

I wanted to read In a Handful of Dust since I devoured Not a Drop to Drink. Ten years have passed and Lucy is a teenager now. She is a helper and unlike Lynn she is more of a people person, wanting to be around and surrounded. So when polio wipes through the community that Lynn and Lucy had accum...

from jljaina

This book takes place ten years after the events in Not a Drop to Drink. Lynn is no longer a teenager. She is now in the "mother" role of raising her own teen. Remember Lucy, the little girl she took in? Yep that is the girl we get to hear this story from. This book has a different feel to it. In...

from Jessika.C

I didn't like as much as I liked the first book but it was still just as strong. This book follows a teenaged Lucy being brought up by grown-up Lynn. A disease is running through the now close community that Lynn secluded herself from and the only two possible sources for it are Lucy and her best...

from agarcia85257

In A Handful of Dust by Mindy McGinnis is the second book in the series that began with Not A Drop To Drink and it is as bleak and exciting as the first book. Somewhere between Thelma and Louise and Cormac McCarthy's The Road with just enough of an infusion of Mad Max beyond the Thunderdome to ma...

from tjsjohanna

There's plenty of excitement in this second book. Ms. McGinnis takes her characters on the road for a story that is very different from "Not a Drop to Drink". Lynn and Lucy encounter much in the way of brutality, but also wonderful bits of humanity and there is a lovely section where they share t...