Salvage This World

De: Michael Farris Smith

Narrado por: Tess Riley

In this gritty epic novel, a young woman returns home with her child to her ghost-haunted father, while a religious extremist hunts the stormridden territory to find the girl who may be a savior in the apocalypse.

There was no rising from the dead and there was no hand to calm the storms and there was no peace in no valley.

In the hurricane-ravaged bottomlands of South Mississippi, where stores are closing and jobs are few, a fierce zealot has gained a foothold, capitalizing on the vulnerability of a dwindling population and a burning need for hope. As she preaches and promises salvation from the light of the pulpit, in the shadows she sows the seeds of violence.

Elsewhere, Jessie and her toddler, Jace, are on the run across the Mississippi/Louisiana line, in a resentful return to her childhood home and her desolate father. Holt, Jace's father, is missing and hunted by a brutish crowd, and an old man witnesses the wrong thing in the depths of night. In only a matter of days, all of their lives will collide, and be altered, in the maelstrom of the changing world.

At once elegiac and profound, SALVAGE THIS WORLD journeys into the heart of a region growing darker and less forgiving, and asks how we keep going—what do we hold onto—in a land where God has fled.

Great story telling

Beautifully written and completely engrossing. A sad
and engrossing bite of Americana. Felt great empathy towards Jesse. Loved the woman’s voice who read her it made the story feel immediate.
My first Michael Faris Smith book. Will definitely read more. Powerful writer. recommend.

Another scorcher by MFS

From the start, brutality in beauty. Truly a masterpiece of southern fiction. Read and you will see the sorrow.

Really uncoordinated story and narration

I’m sure I’m partially to blame somehow, but listened over 200 titles, this is plain, and simply the worst book I have ever listened to. it was very disjointed, and seemingly randomly jump from place to place without proper coordination of the story. The narration had much left to ask for.