After the End by Amy Plum

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It’s been thirty years since the war. My parents and fifteen others escaped in the very last hours, after the first firestorm of nuclear explosions triggered the aftermath – the creeping death of radiation, and famine, and genocide.

Or so she thinks. By the end of the first chapter, Juneau has learned that the story she grew up with in the wilds of Alaska was all a lie.

The Challenge: take a short quote from your current read.
The Challenger: Ambrosia of The Purple Booker.