TY  - BOOK
AU  - Penner,Robert G.
TI  - Strange labour
SN  - 9781989274354
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Regina, SK
PB  - Radiant Press
KW  - Regression (Civilization)
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Manual work
KW  - Voyages and travels
KW  - Dementia
KW  - Patients
KW  - Apocalyptic fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Science fiction
N2  - "The majority of the global population have left the cities and towns to become diggers and work themselves to death in the construction of monumental earthworks. The adults unaffected by this mysterious obsession are part of a dwindling population that survives in the margins of a new society, struggling to construct a meaningful future for themselves. Miranda travels alone across what had once been the American West. After taking care of, and then abandoning a group of dementia patients, she meets Dave, who becomes her travelling companion. Dave recounts his many theories about how and why the apocalypse happened, as they search among the dispossessed for a place called Big Echo. A mesmerizing and uncanny meditation on the meaning of humanity in a universe indifferent to our extinction."--
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