2008's The Last Town on Earth
The Story
The year is 1918. America is fighting a war on foreign soil that has divided the nation. Meanwhile, rumors of the spread of the deadliest epidemic ever are causing panic on the home front. The uninfected town of Commonwealth, Washington, votes to quarantine itself, and two young friends are asked to guard the town entrance and keep strangers out.
One day, a starving, cold—and seemingly ill—soldier comes out of the woods begging for sanctuary, and the two guards are confronted with an agonizing moral dilemma.
About the Author:
Thomas Mullen was born in Providence, Rhode Island, and grew up in the
nearby suburban town of Barrington. A graduate of Oberlin College, he
has also lived in Boston, in Chapel Hill, NC, and he now makes his home
in Washington, DC, with his wife and son.
The Last Town on Earth is his first novel, and he is at work on a second. His employment history began, as so many do, with a teenage job at a certain evil fast food company, and went on to include such employers as a consulting firm, a senior-citizen-run thrift store, a research center on alcohol and drug addictions, and a small publisher of newsletters for esoteric industries such as medical rehab and mortgage banking.
When not reading or writing, his greatest interests are music, film, travel, and hiking.
Link to the Author's site
Awards for Last Town on Earth
Winner of the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Excellence in Historical
Fiction
A Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year
One of the Top 50 Books of the Year and one of the Top 10 Debuts of
the Year--Amazon.com
Best Debut Novel of 2006--USA Today
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