Somewhere Else - Roxanne Ward

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Résumé :
Young Connor was born into a post-apocalyptic world weakened by bad decisions and demolished by a seven-day meteorite strike. It wreaked havoc over the entire world, and the residual effects included illnesses from the dust and starvation that lasted for over a decade killing billions. In the United States, owners of mega-rich companies that endured the destruction acquired large territories around once-thriving cities. The oligarchs separated the residents into a caste system with brutal enforcers and oppressive laws. Connor lives with his grandad, his parents, and his little sister, as workers on the bottom rung. Connor is emotionally caught up in his grandad's forbidden stories of the past and his mysterious purpose in it. He dreams of his fantastical world honoring freedom and justice, and he clings to his grandad's obsession it can return. When his grandad dies, Connor is left heartbroken and alone. He breaks into his grandad's locked room to be close to him once more. While going through his belongings, he discovers his grandad had dark and dangerous secrets that could send them all to prison or worse. As if he doesn't have enough worries, his parents begin to act strangely keeping secrets of their own, and doing things that put the family in grave danger. Connor must protect his grandad's secrets and search for answers which only pile up more mysteries to untangle....

Biographie:
Like most authors, reading and writing are Roxanne's passions. She was heavily influenced by her father, a college administrator, with a love of literature and a fascination with science. Her mother was a college instructor with a creative spirit sharing many hands-on experiences in art and nature. She joined the Air Force Reserves and met her husband while working on the same aircraft. She earned her MS in education from the University of Idaho and was hired as a middle school teacher where she taught language arts and science until she retired in the summer of 2019. Though anxious to write her first book, she took on the task of tutoring her granddaughter during Covid until her school reopened.Northern Idaho has been her home for over three decades. She and her husband live a blessed life on five acres with their border terrier Nikki....

Sommaire:
Young Connor was born into a post-apocalyptic world weakened by bad decisions and demolished by a seven-day meteorite strike. It wreaked havoc over the entire world, and the residual effects included illnesses from the dust and starvation that lasted for over a decade killing billions. In the United States, owners of mega-rich companies that endured the destruction acquired large territories around once-thriving cities. The oligarchs separated the residents into a caste system with brutal enforcers and oppressive laws. Connor lives with his grandad, his parents, and his little sister, as workers on the bottom rung. Connor is emotionally caught up in his grandad's forbidden stories of the past and his mysterious purpose in it. He dreams of his fantastical world honoring freedom and justice, and he clings to his grandad's obsession it can return. When his grandad dies, Connor is left heartbroken and alone. He breaks into his grandad's locked room to be close to him once more. While going through his belongings, he discovers his grandad had dark and dangerous secrets that could send them all to prison or worse. As if he doesn't have enough worries, his parents begin to act strangely keeping secrets of their own, and doing things that put the family in grave danger. Connor must protect his grandad's secrets and search for answers which only pile up more mysteries to untangle....