![]() ![]() Seth meets two other "survivors" in the post-apocalyptic world – Regine, a sharp-tongued black girl, and Tomasz, a quirky Polish boy, their characters leaping off the page. He builds the story's plot steadily, parcelling out the elements of Seth's backstory in manageable chunks, ending each section with a revelation or a cliffhanger, solving some mysteries and setting up new ones. Or did he? The mystery deepens as he involuntarily slips back and forth between both worlds. In the other, he is a bewildered, post-apocalyptic Robinson Crusoe, trying to work out what happened and how he survived. One is a world in which his mother hates the fact that he's gay and blames him for something terrible that happened to his little brother, the circumstances around which led to him killing himself by walking into the sea. For the boy – Seth – is caught between two realities. ![]()
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