The theology remained murky to her, even after she read the section on Premillennial Dispensationalism in her textbook, all that mumbo jumbo about Armageddon and the Antichrist and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. The phenomenon the professor described seemed like a joke to her, hordes of Christians floating out of their clothes, rising up through the roofs of their houses and cars to meet Jesus in the sky, everyone else standing around with their mouths hanging open, wondering where all the good people had gone. The first time she’d heard about the Rapture, she was a freshman in college, taking a class called Intro to World Religions. They might say they do, but they really don’t. We don’t know if there’s a God, and nobody else does, either. We’re agnostics, she used to tell her kids, back when they were little and needed a way to define themselves to their Catholic and Jewish and Unitarian friends. She hadn’t been raised to believe in much of anything, except the foolishness of belief itself.
LAURIE GARVEY HADN’T BEEN RAISED to believe in the Rapture. One of NPR's 10 Best Novels of 2011 Read more Kevin wants to help her, but he's distracted by his growing relationship with Nora Durst, a woman who lost her entire family on October 14th and is still reeling from the tragedy, even as she struggles to move beyond it and make a new start.Ī Washington Post Notable Fiction Book for 2011Ī USA Today 10 Books We Loved Reading in 2011 Title Only Kevin's teenaged daughter, Jill, remains, and she's definitely not the sweet "A" student she used to be. Kevin's own family has fallen apart in the wake of the disaster: his wife, Laurie, has left to join the Guilty Remnant, a homegrown cult whose members take a vow of silence his son, Tom, is gone, too, dropping out of college to follow a sketchy prophet named Holy Wayne. Kevin Garvey, Mapleton's new mayor, wants to speed up the healing process, to bring a sense of renewed hope and purpose to his traumatized community. Because nothing has been the same since it happened-not marriages, not friendships, not even the relationships between parents and children. That's what the bewildered citizens of Mapleton, who lost many of their neighbors, friends and lovers in the event known as the Sudden Departure, have to figure out.
What if-whoosh, right now, with no explanation-a number of us simply vanished? Would some of us collapse? Would others of us go on, one foot in front of the other, as we did before the world turned upside down? With heart, intelligence and a rare ability to illuminate the struggles inherent in ordinary lives, Tom Perrotta's The Leftovers- now adapted into an HBO series- is a startling, thought-provoking novel about love, connection and loss.
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