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A teenage girl and her unraveling family travel cross-country in preparation for the Rapture in this radiant, highly expected debut. With The Last Days of California, Mary Miller bursts into the literary world, taking up the mantle of Southern fiction and making it her own with wry vulnerability and contemporary urgency. Miller's revelatory protagonist, Jess, is fourteen years old and looking forward to the world to end. Her evangelical daddy has packed up the family and left their Montgomery home to drive western to California, hoping to save as much souls as you possibly can before the Second Coming. With her long-suffering mom and rebellious (and secretly pregnant) sister, Jess hands out tracts to nonbelievers at every snooze stop, waffle house, and gas place on the way. As Jess' notion frays, her teenage myopia evolves into recognition about her fracturing family. Using deadpan humor and savage charm belying profound empathy on her behalf individuals, Miller's debut captures the angst, intimate rivalry, and escalating self-doubt of teenage life in America while announcing Miller as a brutal new voice.
