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With its exploration of such topics as citizenship and patriotism during wartime, morality, fear, and the struggle between the individual and society, The Last Town on Earth will give book clubs plenty of avenues for spirited debate.
If you'd like a head start, some of the novel's publishers have posted discussion questions online:
Random House (US)
HarperCollins (UK)
Interested in having the author visit your group, or in having him call in for a "virtual author visit" via the magic of speakerphones? If so, email Thomas.
Buy the Book:"The Last Town on Earth wraps the reader in its quiet power. As the characters become trapped by their town, we become increasingly trapped by our own fears and hopes. Thomas Mullen's debut is stirring, classic storytelling, with a deep resonance between the book's moment in history and our own times."
-Matthew Pearl, author of The Dante Club and The Poe Shadow
"Like the best historical fiction, The Last Town on Earth illuminates a place and time not our own . . . Mullen's novel [also] could not be more timely or relevant, and eerily so. I promise you, while you're reading The Last Town on Earth, the mere sound of a cough will be enough to raise the hair at the back of your neck."
-Larry Watson, author of Montana 1948 and Orchard