![]() ![]() Set in Lancaster County, Ohio the self-sufficiency and industriousness of the Amish is juxtaposed with the grasshopper ways of the “English” (that’s you and me) who live lives looking “down into their rectangles of light,” living “as if “today is the only day.” Soon the grocery stores of the English empty out and they finish up the last few cans of spaghettiOs they found rolling around in their basements. From there, it’s not long before decency falls and gangs go on the attack, desperate for the food they know the Amish have stored in their well-stocked larders. There is no longer any such thing as banking, television, or attending school. Their communications systems grind to a halt. ![]() After a solar storm takes the entire world off the power grid, their planes fall out of the sky. There are so many ways that the English fall in David Williams’ debut novel When the English Fall. ![]()
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