I have read a shit-ton of post-apocalyptic books, but this is by far one of my favorites, if not my favorite. It’s amazing how much the same old post-apocalyptic plot can transform when it’s a woman author. I could completely immerse myself in the story because I could see myself in her shoes, raiding for birth control at pharmacies and being stricken with fear at having to navigate a world where your body is your biggest and most dangerous threat—in more ways than one. It wasn’t just gratuitous violence and gore, but expertly woven themes of remembering what humanity used to be and reconciling it with what it’s become, along with an appropriately sprinkled amount of dead body descriptions and murder. Really glad I found it.