The Dead and the Gone Audiobook (Free)

Susan Beth Pfeffer’s Life even as we Knew It all enthralled and devastated listeners using its brutal but hopeful look at an apocalyptic event–an asteroid hitting the moon, leaving a tailspin of horrific weather changes. Today this harrowing friend book examines the same occasions as they unfold in NEW YORK, exposed through the eye of seventeen-year-old Puerto Rican Alex Morales. When Alex’s parents vanish in the aftermath of tidal waves, he must care for his two younger sisters, even as Manhattan becomes a fatal wasteland, and meals and help dwindle.

With haunting themes of family, faith, personal change, and courage, this powerful new novel explores how a young man takes on unimaginable responsibilities.