‘Life as We Knew It’, by Susan Beth Pfeffer
I don’t know about you, but I’m not a particular fan of “Ann Frank” like books. Books where it’s not only written in 1st person perspective, but where it’s letters, our journals. I have to admit, it doesn’t really draw me in like it would if it were written in another way.
This book is one of those books. It’s written from the point of view of a 16 year old girl, writing in her journal over the course a year of natural disasters that result from a meteor hitting the moon. The tides change devastating the coasts of the world, inactive volcanoes erupt and the air is filled with ash. The United states is devastated, but the journal is a record of Miranda’s family and what they go through as they fight to survive.
Mostly these books just make me think of how unprepared we are for disasters like that. What would we do if we had no electricity for a year, no heating or natural gas to heat the water. No fuel for our cars. No food in the stores.
The pioneers and those that went before us brought us to the point that we are at today, but we could not live like they the way we are set up. Or at least, we would have a very hard time doing it. That’s what the book points out. How utterly unprepared we are and how devastated we would be if something similar were to ever happen. We like to think of ourselves as pretty tough. But we are vulnerable in our dependence on everything but ourselves.
It gives you something to think about.
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