Opening in Pittsburgh (in a refreshing change of pace from cities glamorized on TV), honors student Vivian Apple is introduced at a party thrown by her best friend of late, the wild Harpreet Janda. The author succeeds at hitting all the right notes, but the tune itself never grabbed me. When her parents appear to be taken up by God and the apocalypse is at hand, she's left to fend for herself. Published in 2014, the novel focuses on a model seventeen-year-old who not only watches freakish weather and economic recession rampage across the U.S., but witnesses the rise of the Church of America, whose half-baked gospels instruct an alarming number of Believers how to be raptured into heaven on Judgment Day, while all others will be set on the road to damnation. Vivian Apple at the End of the World is a breezy apocalyptic read that I appreciated, but came up short of loving.
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