Everything is Broken by John Shirley

Everything is Broken by John Shirley

Forced into action; forced into adulthood.

When twenty-year-old Russ arrives in the oddly named town of Freedom, California, he expects little more than an uneasy visit with his estranged father. Instead, he finds a community cut off from the outside world by a mayor's radical experiment in "decentralization"-a place with few rules, minimal services, and more questions than answers.

Russ barely has time to take it all in before a monstrous tsunami devastates the West Coast. In the aftermath, Freedom's isolation becomes a curse. Supplies dwindle, tensions erupt, and the wave of human cruelty that follows the natural disaster proves far deadlier than the ocean itself.

As chaos closes in, Russ, his father, and a young woman named Pendra must summon courage they never knew they had. To survive, they'll have to forge unlikely alliances and learn that true strength comes not from standing alone, but from standing together.

A tense, pulse-pounding thriller, Everything is Broken is a gripping coming-of-age story about resilience, community, and the brutal choices we must make when survival is on the line.