Anne Mendel reads from Etiquette for an Apocalypse ($14.99), which, no kidding, is a post-apocalyptic comedy. Its story focuses on the struggle to survive and bring some order, not to mention good manners, into a less than brave new world defined by the grueling, sometimes strangely amusing, realities of starvation and violence.
Anne Mendel grew up in Arkansas and attended Miss Ashleigh’s Charm School, where she learned absolutely nothing about dealing with disasters (unless breaking a high heel counts as a disaster). Before she began writing full time she used her Master’s Degree in Community Organizing to advocate for women and girls.
“The story…goes down dark corridors as the struggle to survive and bring some order into this new world is waged. This really is a great story, one that grabs you and keeps you until the end.”
-Midwest Book Review
Etiquette for an Apocalypse
a post-apocalyptic comedy
It’s the 2020 Apocalypse and Sophie Cohen must keep her family alive amid the grueling, sometimes strangely amusing, realities of starvation and violence. In all of this chaos, can she mobilize her community to find a serial killer and take on the sinister emerging power structure? Can she learn to use a pizza box/aluminum foil solar oven and a Glock 9mm? Can she resolve interminable high-drama clashes with her mother, daughter and husband? She might find that life–without her Prius, iPhone and chocolate éclairs—isn’t the end-of-the-world.
“After reading Anne Mendel’s highly original dark comedy, I’m convinced she is Janet Evanovich’s long-lost slightly evil twin.”
-Marc Acito
award-winning novelist and NPR commentator
“A wild ride of entertainment for a jaded and cynical reading public, and a sunburst of hope for those despairing of the current human predicament.”
-Win McCormack, Editor-in-Chief
TinHouse Magazine
