The Rest is Silence

Winner, H.R. (Bill) Percy Novel Prize Finalist, Amazon.ca First Novel Award Finalist, Jim Connors Dartmouth Book Award Finalist, Ottawa Book Award In the backwoods of Nova Scotia, a man has decided to withdraw from the world and live off the land. Meanwhile, news reports begin to trickle in of a global catastrophe. Someone has released a genetically modified strain of bacteria that devours plastic. The world will never again be the same. In this masterfully atmospheric novel, both apocalyptic in scope and intimate in setting, Scott Fotheringham cracks opens Pandoras box to let loose a trail of chilling consequences.