Burn Burn

Burn

A novel

    • 3.9 • 101 Ratings
    • $14.99

Publisher Description

From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars and The Last Ranger, a novel about two men—friends since boyhood—who emerge from the woods of rural Maine to a dystopian country racked by bewildering violence

Every year, Jess and Storey have made an annual pilgrimage to the most remote corners of the country, where they camp, hunt, and hike, leaving much from their long friendship unspoken. Although the state of Maine has convulsed all summer with secession mania—a mania that has simultaneously spread across other states—Jess and Storey figure it’s a fight reserved for legislators or, worst-case scenario, folks in the capital.

But after weeks hunting off the grid, the men reach a small town and are shocked by what they find: a bridge blown apart, buildings burned to the ground, and bombed-out cars abandoned on the road. Trying to make sense of the sudden destruction all around them, they set their sights on finding their way home, dragging a wagon across bumpy dirt roads, scavenging from boats left in lakes, and dodging armed men—secessionists or U.S. military, they cannot tell—as they seek a path to safety. Then, a startling discovery drastically alters their path and the stakes of their escape.

Drenched in the beauty of the natural world and attuned to the specific cadences of male friendship, even here at the edge of doom, Burn is both a blistering warning about a divided country’s political strife and an ode to the salvation found in our chosen families.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2024
August 13
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
304
Pages
PUBLISHER
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
2.4
MB

Customer Reviews

kaykaybean13 ,

Definitely had me intrigued

Two best friends are in the deep woods of Maine for their annual hunting trip when they come across a town that’s been completely obliterated. Every building has been incinerated and all the humans dead wherever they’ve fallen or ashes from the fires. As they try to figure out what’s happening they travel through the dense camouflage of the forest and continue to witness more devastation cars left empty, houses with doors open if standing at all and the obvious signs that a dangerous situation and battle had ensued. They walked far through Maine and it was all the same until they reach one small town. Quite quaint where they are being shot at. They manage to escape that ambush by killing the handful of ppl who were trying tj kill then and they hear a scream from a kayaking woman and sees military helicopter pursue her and promptly incinerate her with thejr weapon that’s clearly meant to obliterate its targets. Strangely every single boat is in their pier not one has any damage to them and as they wash up one of them see a pregnant woman about 8 months trying her best to out paddle the helicopter who also shoots her to dust. Another has committed suicide by weighted herself down with rocks and drowning. Having no radio info or even a human that’s not out to shoot them dead can tell them wrf is happening. Soon they find a radio and learn the American president has been assassinated and VP has citied nearly all towns especially those left leaning ones are allowing refugees and to shelter there. A lot of rags and division they hear from an old transistor radio that Maine has been obliterated and that NEW HAMPSHIRE is also staying while they wait out the the 2000 troops American in charged bave pulled out their favorite toys- military men weapons and toys to harm innocent. You won’t believe the end

GaryDiz ,

Resolution

What happened with the civil war? The next book? Scary book considering our current political situation.

love2steelhead ,

Probably not

Forced myself to finish this one. Two men on a hunting trip, Armageddon happens, they save a young girl, they rehash their adolescence. Definitely not his best

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