The Second History
A novel of haunting beauty and ominous suspense, The Second History is a post-apocalyptic love story about a young couple embarking on a journey to understand, for the first time, what they've been hiding from all their lives.
Born in a barren, altered future world, Eban has lived in hiding all his life without ever understanding why. After his mother's death, he retreated into the northern Appalachians with Judy, the only other woman he has ever known.
But as the years passed and Judy suffered multiple miscarriages, she began to wonder what happened to the cities their parents fled, where a strange sickness is said to have spread among those who stayed behind. To stop the headstrong woman he loves from leaving…
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August 3, 2021
REBECCA SILVER SLAYTER is the author of In the Land of Birdfishes, which was shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. Named one of CBC's Ten Writers to Watch, Rebecca is the director of the Cabot Trail Writers Festival and an editor of Brick, A Literary Journal. She lives in Nova Scotia.
