Favorite book of 2014. Blew me away. I'll say more when I've had time to process it. I will say this-this is the first book to haunt me this year. Read it!

Edit: This is going to sound really...naive, perhaps, but one of the parts I enjoyed the most about this book was the glimpse of hope at the end. I enjoy reading dystopic novels, and can usually handle the dreariness and hopelessness, but this made for a nice change. This is a difficult one for me to explain why I liked it so much. Perhaps because it takes place in the Great Lakes region and I'm fascinated with what it would be like to experience something like this in my home state?

2nd Edit: Reread in 2019 and it still holds up.