I was hoping for a rural YA version of the must read classic David Simon book The Corner. With the selfless heroism of the passengers on United Flight 93 that crashed nearby fresh in his mind and in his heart, Tom begins to see some reasons to stay, to see that even lost causes can be worth fighting for.Įdward Bloor has created a searing portrait of a place and a family and a boy who survive a harrowing plague year, and become stronger than before.Ī Plague Year had so much potential to be a powerful realistic story of a poor mining town destroyed by meth. But as bits of his childhood erode around him, he finds it's not so easy to let go.
Tom's always been focused on getting out of his depressing coal mining town, on planning his escape to a college somewhere sunny and far away. It will fill the prisons, and the morgues. Meth will unmake the lives of friends and teachers and parents. But by year's end there will be ruined, hollow people on every street corner. It starts small, with petty thefts of cleaning supplies and Sudafed from the supermarket where Tom works. The drug rips through Blackwater, PA, with a ferocity and a velocity that overwhelms everyone. It's 2001 and zombies have taken over Tom's town.
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