The Leftovers
Tom Perrotta • 2011
Devastation Rating
cults literary fiction loss philosophical
Our Take
Two percent of the world's population vanishes and the rest must live with the not-knowing. Perrotta writes the cults that spring up in the aftermath — the Guilty Remnant who smoke and stare, the charlatans who promise answers. The horror is not the departure but the meanings people build from absence.
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