To escape the choking heat of deep summer, Sky and his family survive on stories of the dead in an underground darkness at the end of the world. "A striking, suspenseful novel about calamity, transformation, and the stories we tell to keep ourselves alive." —Leni Zumas, Red Clocks "An oddly hopeful yet quietly brutal book about living past the end of the world." —Brian Evenson, The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell