Lights Out in Lincolnwood Author:Geoff Rodkey It’s a normal Tuesday morning in Lincolnwood, New Jersey, for the Altman family. Dan, a lawyer turned screenwriter, is preoccupied with his TV producer boss’s endless demands. Seventeen-year-old daughter Chloe obsesses over her college application essay and the state tennis semifinals. Her vape-addicted little brother, Max, sile... more »ntly plots revenge against a thuggish freshman classmate. And their MBA-educated mom Jen, who put her career on hold to raise the kids, is counting the minutes until her first vodka of the day.
Then, as school starts and Dan commutes into Manhattan, the world comes to a sudden, inexplicable stop. Phones, laptops, cars …the entire technological infrastructure of twenty-first-century society stops working. Normal life as we know it, is over.
Or is it?
Over four chaotic, mordantly funny days, this privileged but clueless American family will struggle to hold it together in the face of water shortages, paramilitary neighbors, and their own personal demons as they try to figure out just what the hell is going on.« less