'Not only timely and thought-provoking but also generous in its understanding of human nature. When the apocalypse comes, I want Nunez in my lifeboat' Vanity Fair

In an America devastated by a flu pandemic, orphaned thirteen-year-old Cole finds safety and stability with an evangelical pastor and his wife. Happiness becomes disquiet as he realizes the cost at which this peace comes, and the extent to which it challenges everything he knows.

Salvation City is a story of love, betrayal and forgiveness, blending a deeply affecting portrait of one young boy's transformation with a profound meditation on belief, heroism and the true meaning of salvation.

'Nunez's writing is gorgeously spare, and she gets the life and the lingo of a teenage boy just right . . . A gorgeously strange novel' Boston Globe

'A satisfying, provocative and very plausible novel' Abraham Verghese, New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

'A wise and richly humane coming-of-age novel' O Magazine

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