So Hal (Miranda’s father) decides that he wants to be with his children and back they came.
The situation in other places is just as bleak and influenza and quarantine meant that Miranda’s father and Lisa couldn’t get to where they were going in Life as We Knew It. Miranda’s father, his wife Lisa and their new baby Gabriel arrive back on the doorstep accompanied by a man named Charlie that they met in an evacuation camp and also, Alex and Julie Morales from The Dead and the Gone. And you might as well take anything that might help prolong your own life or at least help make it more comfortable!īasically nothing happens except daily rituals for 90 pages and then the book finally decides to marry the stories of the previous two. You’d think that once you realised you were living in a ghost town and there was hardly anybody else left, you’d loot it for everything it had. Why it only occurs to her to do this now (they went looking for food before, but never other things that might’ve been of use) I don’t know. They get intermittent electricity so the heaters can be used to warm up other parts of the house during those times and help save firewood. Miranda goes looting the nearby houses, looking for things like toilet paper, toothpaste, shampoo and other cosmetics, books to read to pass the time, small electric heaters, anything that might be useful. They return with plenty of fish and also, Matt’s new wife, a woman named Syl who settles into the household like she’s always been there. Matt, Miranda’s older brother has the idea to go fishing in the Delaware for shad and he and the younger brother set off and are gone nearly a week. In May though, they stop delivering the food and someone must trek into town each week to pick it up. They are still receiving a bag of food for each member every Monday and it’s enough to get them though if they’re careful. It’s almost a year since the day the meteor hit the Moon and Miranda and her family are still struggling by. In This World We Live In, we’re back with Miranda and her diary. **Spoilers for Life As We Knew It and The Dead and the Gone**
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