What's the Name of That Book??? discussion

Post apocalyptic, possibly YA - all adults in the world have died from a disease to do with stress except a few "simple" adults. Starts off with older girl in the family home making a pie for her younger sister. They fall in with a group including a surviving adult who is looked on as a kind of messiah. Can't really remember what else happens! Some kind of opposing groups showdown, lots of descriptions of factories and businesses left as they are.

yay! someone finally replied! thanks :)

hmmm... pretty sure it was _all_ adults who died except the "simple" minded, and i don't think i would forget a detail like post-menopausal women. don't think it was paret of a trilogy either. my thanks for trying though!

Hole in the Sky? This weird flu thing kills a ton of people and there aren't very many adults left for some reason. The survivors of the flu are then immune to it but it makes them completely bald and they get varying degrees of sensory impairment. The survivors formed this weird cult thing where they think it is their duty to infect people with the flu virus to see if they are "chosen" or not. The main character is Hopi and believes there is this portal to another world so she's traveling to it, and comes into contact with this boy and his sister. I want to say the sister is deaf and possibly lost her ability to communicate or something so that is why maybe you think they are simple minded?

OK wait I was just reading the first few pages: the survivors usually lose some of their mental capabilities too so they become "slow".

Tabby, the bald thing and the portal don't sound at all familiar, sorry. thanks for trying!

There is a pretty popular one called "The Girl Who Owned a City."

This doesn't sound quite right, but how about this?
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mmm... doesn't seem like it. it was definitely a teen girl and her younger sibling who start the story and were the main characters, and she baked a pie. then they went walkabout into the world. thanks!

Sharon, are you still looking for this?

Well, I am interested in reading it again, but I've not been searching diligently since 2011! :)

Well as long as you are even just vaguely, barely interested, you can bump the thread every so often. Every 30-90 days is a typical bump time.

You might check the Apocalypse Whenever group bookshelf -- they have tons of post-apoc titles there.

I wonder if this is the one I was looking for too? I'll check that Apocalypse thing out. Maybe will have some luck.

Still looking?

Am still interested in reading it, but no, not found it yet :(

Sharon, what year did you read this book?

What's the location - Australia/U.S./country or a fantasy world (not Earth)?

No zombies?

Does the book start with all the adults (except the messiah-like figure) already dead? Can you tell us more about the disease and how it started and spread - the term "stress" is used?

A guess - The Kindling by Jennifer Armstrong? Fire-us series link - https://www.goodreads.com/series/4195...

Someone mentioned that one upthread, and OP said no. I've been following this one in the hopes it may be one I'm looking for.

Could it be Into the Forest by Jean Hegland?

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Jamie wrote: "Could it be Into the Forest by Jean Hegland?"

That's not a bad suggestion but I don't think that's right as the two sisters spend most of the book in one location and there are few other characters (and certainly not a group of lots of people). I have a copy and skimmed through and couldn't find anything about a pie either.

Sounds interesting

is it gone by Michael grant?

Gone by Michael Grant - Jenny's suggestion

I'll check it out. Cheers!

Read probably around 15 yrs ago? Possibly more?

location Earth. USA from memory.

No zombies.

Adults are already dead and decomposing/gone. Can't remember many details about the disease, but it was definitely to do with adult life stress.

This one, perhaps? The Girl Who Owned a City
oops, already mentioned. A long shot but maybe? Neena Gathering

bump

Maybe check the No Adults list?
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...

Great suggestion! I'll have a look :)

Does anything on the 20th Century YA and Middle Grade Science Fiction list look familiar?

Still looking, Sharon?