Either way, the audience, filled with beaming girls a few years younger than herself and their mothers, seemed to agree. She suspected his bravado actually stemmed from the fact that her sophomore album’s second single had stalled at number thirteen-a far cry from the lead single’s number-one debut or her four straight top-five hits off her first album. We mourn, we rebuild, we respect the things we have,” explains one of the men who helped Moira flee her pop-star past, effectively summarizing the crew’s ongoing hope.Ĭhen’s fast-paced tale is an optimistic look at how our humanity can bring out the best in us, even in the darkest times.“The show must go on,” her father proclaimed, like she was doing humanity a service by performing. “I’m out here because I love people, and that’s the American Dream today. But the real hope comes from the characters’ desires to hide their pasts-and then their willingness to reveal their true selves to one another as they seek something worth living for. Krista banks on her clients’ desire to find some joy in the midst of a bleak world. Relationships fall apart as most of the world’s remaining population wrestles with a PTSD-like condition.Įven against a science fiction backdrop, humanity is the center of Chen’s post-apocalyptic tale. These four survivors come together in San Francisco, an unlikely group fused by Moira’s pending nuptials, Krista’s role as an event planner and Rob’s desperation to keep his daughter at his side.Ī Beginning at the End, the second imaginative novel by technical- and sportswriter-turned-novelist Mike Chen ( Here and Now and Then), examines the hysteria of a world where some adopt an “every individual for him- or herself” attitude. She chooses life and joins a group fleeing to save themselves. Krista is watching over her dying boyfriend-a victim of the MGS pandemic-when opportunity literally knocks on her door.
Rob can’t bring himself to tell Sunny her mother has died, and he spends each subsequent day wrestling with the resulting lies. Rob and Sunny find themselves in quarantine after Rob’s wife, Elena, is fatally injured during a riot. The world may be ending, but this is her shot at freedom from her overbearing father. Moira follows the crowd into the streets of New York City and recognizes her chance.
Her concert, actually she’s a beloved pop star, known as MoJo, and she’s on stage at Madison Square Garden when news of a flu-like outbreak called multi-generational syndrome (MGS) sends her fans into a panic.
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