Mayfly
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
In a world where life ends at seventeen, can love survive the apocalypse?
Jemma has spent her life scavenging for survival in her tribe's small enclave outside the ruins of a once-great city. Now a teen, she faces a bleak future: making babies is the only way her people can survive in a world where no one lives past seventeen.
But Jemma's bond with a boy named Apple is stronger than her duty as a Mama. When they are forced into exile, they're joined by a mysterious boy claiming to know the cause of the deadly plague that killed the Parents. As their world crumbles, time is running out. Can they outlive the apocalypse?
Mayfly is a gripping dystopian thriller from debut author Jeff Sweat. Set in a post-apocalyptic Southern California ravaged by disease, it's a pulse-pounding survival story that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Perfect for fans of young adult science fiction and speculative fiction, this futuristic tale explores powerful themes of love, duty, and the fight for survival in a dying world.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Lives are short and brutal in this postapocalyptic adventure, in which communities of children fend for themselves in the ruins of Los Angeles, generations after a disease wiped out all adults. Now, girls must become Mamas at 15, since they'll be dead by 17, and love is a luxury none of them can afford. When circumstances force 15-year-old Jemma; her best friend, Lady; the handsome Apple; and the brilliant Pico to leave the safety of the Holy Wood, they see it as an opportunity to seek out a rumored cure for the Ending, so they set off on a quest across a world filled with the remnants of the Parents' civilization. As they dodge the threats of the cannibalistic Biters and the feral Last Lifers, the quartet discovers the secret behind society's collapse and their own inevitable deaths. There's an almost mythological quality to this tale, as the resourceful protagonists maneuver through a barely recognizable landscape, with modern culture filtered through generations of oral history and misinterpretation, and debut novelist Sweat does an admirable job of maintaining the tense atmosphere and underlying desperation. Ages 13 up.
