Book Review: Tilt by Emma Pattee
This post contains affiliate links, which means that we’ll earn a small commission if you make a purchase through these links. “Nobody wants to be where they are, I think. So would it really matter so much if the earth swallowed us all?” 📚 Annie is 37 weeks pregnant and shopping for a crib at IKEA when a devastating earthquake (“The Big One”) hits the east coast, devolving her surroundings into chaos. With no transportation, money, phone, or means of reaching her husband, she’s forced to traverse Portland’s wreckage on foot. Throughout her day-long walk, she experiences kindness, desperation, cruelty, tragedy, friendship, and violence. She also reflects on her underwhelming career, troubled marriage, and misgivings about becoming a mother, all of which solidify her determination to turn everything around, if she can only make it safely home. Tilt ’s stark realism constructs a jaw-dropping, heart-pounding, sky-high-stakes odyssey that opens as a taut rubber band gradually stretching to...
