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*****"Plains of dust" (Rebecca Mitchell)(Chicago): The story of a suburban family living on the outskirts of Chicago during and after the war. The first part deals with the family's flight from the nuclear blasts that destroyed Chicago and their plight in the freezing refugee camps that barely kept them alive. One by one members of the family are torn away from the group through conscription, cold and starvation. Eventually the heroine and two younger siblings join the trek from the drought-ravaged plains to a safe zone in Oregon. Mitchell was hailed as the Twenty-First century's Steinbeck, dealing with lives of little people in hugely adverse circumstances. Mitchell was a minor organizer in FEMA who eventually became a Senator for Oregon. The novel was first published in 2018.
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