Hole in the Sky

Hole in the Sky by Pete Hautman is really interesting.  I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys reading science fiction.

In the year 2028, a Flu virus plagues the earth, and leaves only 38 million people alive worldwide.  Only one in two thousand people who contract the Flu live, the people who live are called Survivors.  The Flu can leave the survivors blind, deaf, and mentally impaired.  Ceej Kane lives in an abandoned hotel along the edge of the Grand Canyon, along with his uncle and sister Harryette.  Harryette is a Survivor.  One day Harryette, Uncle, and the father of Tim, Ceej’s best friend, disappear.  So Ceej and Tim set out to find them, while searching they are attacked by the Kinka.  The Kinka are a band of half-crazy Survivors who spread the Flu in an attempt to create more people like them.  Ceej and Tim quickly learn that the Kinka are behind the disappearances.   It is already too late to rescue Uncle, and Tim’s father, so the only one they can save now is Harryette, and they’re going to save her whether she wants to be saved or not.