Pink Slime

It took me a minute to get into this, but I did. I was fascinated. Our unnamed narrator is STUCK. An algae has taken over the sea off the coast where she lives, making residents sick. Most of them have fled, everyone who has stayed lives by the “alarm” trying to keep the toxic cloud from getting into their homes. Food is scarce. They are living on jars of pink slime produced by the local meat factory. She spends her days visiting her emotionally devoid mother, and her ex-husband at the clinic. She is paid a large amount of money to nanny a child, Mauro, with a syndrome in which he is perpetually hungry and must be watched 24/7.
Sometimes you read a book in which the main purpose of the story is to be a witness. This is what happened to this woman, in this time, while dealing with this end of the world event. It is possible she has suffered so much as this point it has rendered her immobile. Part of me was screaming for her to escape, part of me wanted her to stay so I could see what would happen right up to the very last second. I got my wish.
Highly recommend.