Short and grim, describes a world descending slowly into chaos. Not a dramatic flames and explosions apocalypse, but a rather too realistic descent into worse and worse conditions as cities and countries deteriorate into anarchy and chaos once the world's resources start to run out. The characters are old enough to remember the world we know, but now have to adjust to the reality that life will never be as easy again. The novel follows Jasper and a group of his acquaintances/friends as they struggle to survive in Savannah Georgia and then make their way to Athens, trying to figure out both how the world is changing and what it means to who they are and what they value. The book is believable, somewhat depressing, and a little slow at the start but picks up about half way through and has a good ending.