When an asteroid hits the moon, knocking it closer to earth, life as Miranda knew it changed forever. Tidal waves destroy coastal cities, volcanic ash darkens the air, and communication with anyone but your neighbors is all but impossible. Miranda's older brother makes it home from college, but her dad and pregnant stepmom decide to risk traveling and are soon unreachable. She's left with her two brothers, her mom, and their elderly neighbor who is a family friend. At first, things don't seem too bad. Electricity is spotty, but available, and they have plenty of canned and boxed food to survive. But it's the slow unraveling of society that makes this novel special--the steady but sure decline of humanity that would be inevitable if an event like this were to occur. There are a few holes in the world-building, such as stating they were out of natural gas, the electricity is off, and somehow they are cooking dinner. (This is all before they began using the wood stove...) But I guess I can look past all that because this is the kind of book you want to tell everybody about.
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