Vivian Versus the Apocalypse

A chilling vision of contemporary USA where the sinister Church of America is destroying lives. The cynical protagonist, sixteen-year-old Vivian Apple, is awaiting the fated Rapture - or lack of it. Her evangelical parents have been in the Church s thrall for too long, and she wants to get them back. Except that when Vivian arrives home after the supposed Rapture , her parents are gone. All that is left are two holes in the ceiling... Viv knows she must uncover the truth. Peter, a boy claiming to know the real whereabouts of the Church, and Edie, a heavily pregnant Believer who has been left behind , join Viv on a road trip across America. Encountering freak weather, roving Believer gangs and a strange teenage group calling themselves the 'New Orphans , Viv realises that the Rapture was just the beginning.