Radio Silence

 

Radio Silence by Alyssa Cole (Off the Grid, Book 1)  New Adult & College

(from Amazon)  No one expects the apocalypse.  Arden Highmore was living your average postgrad life in Rochester, New York, when someone flipped the “off” switch on the world. No cell phones, no power, no running water—and no one knows why. All she and her roommate, John, know for sure is that they have to get out, stat. His family’s cabin near the Canadian border seemed like the safest choice.

(My Review)  So, I accidentally got the wrong Radio Silence.  There is another written by Alice Oseman, that I had heard about, and of course I reserved the wrong one from the library.  But, when I received it, realized it, I read the description, I decided to read it anyway.  

I thought it was pretty interesting.  In the Sociology classes I teach, we talk about the impact of technology, and about what we would do if it all went away.  This book imagines that kind of world and follows a group of young adults as they deal with the impact of a world reeling from a world turned upside down.  I liked how they formed a family and supported each other as they dealt with the not-knowing about their own families and just trying to survive.