I never realized I wanted a postapocalyptic Amish novel, but the premise is so perfect I can’t believe that it’s never been done before - or that someone did it so well on the first try. Jacob’s family is dazzled by the auroras at first, “dancing wild sheets cast across the skies, beautiful purples and blues and pinks.” But then darkened planes crash, fires burn on the horizon, and Sadie has a new forecast: “It’s going to be so hard.” The bishop even warns Jacob, “This seems the Devil’s work.”īut then one night in early autumn, Sadie’s prediction comes true.
Beyond their crops, Sadie’s visions are one of the community’s chief concerns before the solar storm hits. Jacob’s daughter Sadie has been warning their Amish community about the end of the world for weeks, because she’s seen it happen during her violent seizures. Night Shyamalan’s “Signs,” our perspective of this world-changing event is limited to a single family in rural Pennsylvania. He’s describing the solar storm that renders modern technology useless in “When the English Fall,” a quiet, brilliant little novel begging for a Netflix adaptation.Īs in M.
“The angels came and filled the heavens,” writes Jacob, the Amish farmer whose late-night diaries narrate the collapse of modern civilization. When the apocalypse arrives in David Williams’ debut novel, it is beautiful.
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