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From the author of Canada Reads winner Nikolski comes a sweet smart and occasionally surreal romantic comedy featuring two young friends who could become loversif only one of them hadnt convinced herself that the end of the world is nigh
The Randall family was always a little strange For generations each member receives a prophetic vision of the apocalypsebut always on a different date When the End of Days fails to materialize yet another Randall goes mad
In the summer of 1989 Hope Randalls mother in an attempt to forestall the latest imminent apocalypse loads up the Lada and heads west from Yarmouth After their car dies in RivireduLoup the mother and daughter put down roots as yet another day of reckoning comes and goes
Mickey Bauermann has never seen the likes of the redheaded wonder that is Hope whose idea of a good time is spending Friday nights watching David Suzuki reveal the mysteries of science on TV The Bauermann family has been in the concrete business for generations but Mickey has other ideas of what he wants to do with his life For now he spends every available second with Hope whose mother has become increasingly unhinged The teens take refuge in Mickeys bungalow basement aka The Bunker where they watch the twentieth century crumble and transform on the small screen
But when Hopes destiny as a Randall is revealed by chanceand by a bomb shelters worth of ramen noodlesthe time for hiding out is past For Hope the only way to deal with the end of the world is to confront it head on The journey begins
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