Senior Evie Rubenstein recently read “A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World” by C.A. Fletcher
“It’s full of twists that had me going mouth wide open while I was reading it in class,” Rubenstein said. “You could say every part of the title in some way is lying to you about it.”
The book follows a boy who is living in a shrinking dystopian society due to rising infertility. His dog is stolen, and he goes on a journey to find his dog, but the boy ends up laying eyes on things he had never seen before.
“He finds all these things he’s only read about in books, like big houses and cities and ferris wheels, new people from different places,” Rubenstein said. “He finds his lost dog and ends up finding a lot more stuff, too.”
Charlie A. Fletcher is a screenwriter and author, known best for his “Stoneheart” trilogy.
“[I would recommend it to] anyone who’s interested in dystopian books that are less about how everything’s down and more like how are you going to fix this?” Rubenstein said. “Like what are we going to do to work with the things that we have? Exploratory kinds of things.”
“A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World” is a post-apocalyptic book about the outside perspective of what things we perceive as normal may be and the adventure of finding new things. It is full of twists, leaving readers on the edge of their seats.