The Time of Quarantine

Fiction. Lyrical, provocative, and deeply haunting, THE TIME OF QUARANTINE, takes us into a near-distant future of post-human environmental collapse to chronicle the tale of a boy raised alone in the woods by computers at the end of the world--or is it? As the sole surviving member of an ill-fated Intentional Community designed to escape world's end plagues and convinced he is alone on earth, the boy--now a man--is determined to carry out the final wishes of his father and fulfill his stoic duties of merely being human. But when he discovers, as if by accident, that everything he's always imagined to be true is, instead, a lie, he decides to leave the safety of his little spinning plot of spaceship earth and go back into the world to find out what comes next.

Author: Katharine Haake
Publisher: What Books Press
Published: 03/31/2012
Pages: 294
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.66d
ISBN: 9780984578214

About the Author
Haake, Katharine: - Katharine Haake's award-winning work includes the hybrid novel That Water, Those Rocks and three prior collections of short stories, including THE ORIGIN OF STARS and the Los Angeles Times best-selling, The Height and Depth of Everything. Her fiction has appeared widely in such literary journals as One Story, Witness, The Iowa Review, and Crazyhorse. A regular contributor to scholarship in the theory and pedagogy of creative writing, she is also the author of What Our Speech Disrupts: Feminism and Creative Writing Studies (National Council of Teachers of English, 2000), and teaches at California State University, Northridge.