The Passage
Justin Cronin, 2010
A government experiment becomes a plague of night creatures, and a small girl may be the only way through the ruins.
Justin Cronin
Cronin began The Passage as a bedtime story for his daughter, who asked him to write it down; she suggested a girl who saves the world.
Feels like dread, memory and awe.
The people you love can become the walls you can't see.
All these people: they were trapped. And not merely by the wires that surrounded them. Physical barricades were nothing compared to the wires of the mind. What had truly imprisoned them was one another. Husbands and wives, parents and children, friends and companions: what they believed had given them strength in their lives had actually done the opposite. Guilder recalled the couple who lived across the street from his townhouse, trading off their sleeping daughter on the way to the car. How heavy that burden must have felt in their arms. And when the end swept down upon them all, they would exit the world on a wave of suffering, their agonies magnified a million times over by the loss of her. Would they have to watch her die? Books by Justin Cronin
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