And in the Dark They Are Born

A deaf teenager and a middle-aged scavenger navigate a post-blackout America occupied by warring tribes. When Vitri returns from a day of scavenging downtown Waco, Texas, he discovers his wife has taken her own life-and their young son's. Gutted and reeling, Vitri does what nearly everyone did after the blackout: he leaves town. Meanwhile, in Monroe, Louisiana, Reyn, a deaf thirteen-year-old, lives with her addict mother in a Jeep.
By day, they drive from hospital to hospital in search of supplies. By night, they trade those supplies with the yellow-masked tribe controlling the highway. When tragedy catches up with them inside one particular hospital, Reyn feels there's no choice but to head northwest, toward the father she hopes she still has. The paths of Reyn and Vitri converge, and as they learn to communicate with one another, both are forced to confront their pasts, and their grief, while navigating a new world reassembling itself along old, familiar lines.
And in the Dark They Are Born is a novel from a fresh voice in literary fiction, and a great fit for fans of Cormac McCarthy's The Road and Charles Portis's True Grit.