It's time for Karen to leave her boarding school in rural Massachusetts. A horrendously virulent and deadly disease has struck. Faculty and most staff have fled. Food deliveries have long ended and starvation looms. Streets are empty and cars do not move. Karen and her friends want to leave; it seems the only solution, but how? It will take weeks or months to do the journey on foot through hostile or deserted country. And what will she find when she gets home? Food deliveries have long ended.Starvation looms. Karenwantstogethome, but how?The roads are empty, and it will take weeks or months to journey on foot through a hostile or deserted country. And what will she find if she gets home?