6/19/2023 0 Comments From the Caves by Thea Prieto![]() ![]() ![]() Along the way, Prieto describes the unforgiving elements of nature with beautiful prose: “the suck of low tide holds pockets of noise-a hissing wind, the boom of brown ocean waves.” This is a gut punch of a dystopian novel. Meanwhile, Teller suffers a high fever, but remains hopeful that others will come to their rescue. After they reach the caves, tensions rise as Sky begins to distrust Mark’s motives after he insists on helping to deliver Tie’s baby. With summer fast approaching, they head for shelter in a group of seaside caves. WINNER of the 2021 Foreword Indie Book Award in LiteratureEnvironmental catastrophe has driven four people inside the dark throat of a cave: Sky, a child coming of age Tie, pregnant and grieving Mark, a young man poised to assume primacy and Teller, an elder, holder of stories. The book is also a silver winner in the 2021 INDIES Book of the Year Awards for literary fiction. Mark gladly takes on the role as leader, with Tie in the final stages of pregnancy and Teller’s limp worsening as an infection spreads through his leg. From the Caves won the Red Hen Press Novella Award in 2019 and was recently awarded the Eric Hoffer Award for the best small press publication, as well as the First Horizon Award a distinction awarded to superior work by debut authors. Among the enigmatic cast is Mark, a bossy young man Tie, a compassionate pregnant woman Teller, a wise old man with a limp and Sky, an impressionable eight-year-old mourning the death of Green, formerly his mentor and quasi-leader of the group. In Prieto’s trenchant debut, the survivors of an apocalypse navigate a scorched land full of desolation and desperation. ![]()
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