Nix and Ruth live on the ocean’s edge in a whale’s carcass. Their previous life—with supermarkets, flights, croissants, and familiar problems—ended along with the entire world. They don’t know whether anyone else survived after the global catastrophe, and now, in the WORLD AFTER, all that’s left for them is to survive—and to remember the WORLD BEFORE. In the WORLD BEFORE, Ruth had her best friend and beloved parents—but also a feeling of loneliness and being unsettled, plus complicated relationships with a divorced man. Did her life after the catastrophe become worse? Or, on the contrary, did the death of the old world give her and Nick a chance to truly start over from a clean slate…
“Carcass” is a delicate, meditative novel about the fact that life and love do not end, even when the world dies.