The Leftovers

Well this was an interesting pick to read at the beginning of quarantine! In the book, a host of people from one town just evaporate into thin air one day, leaving their loved ones to deal with the fall-out of immediate and widespread loss in a community. The book explores the aftermath as several people in the town form a cult of silence, total asceticism, but also a weird kind of pseudoterrorism that then looms over the rest of the community that are trying to continue their lives “normally.” It's an interesting meditation on existentialism and the ways we move through grief.