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In book one of Sudden Quiet, society has collapsed, the modern age has expired, and global mortality is curving toward 99 percent. In northern Michigan, the electrical grid has been down for over a year. Three scouts, all uninfected, start on a mission from Beaver Island to the darkened mainland. They're on a search for allies and information, led by Keith Two-Crow, a Vietnam veteran and Ojibwe elder. Keith's two charges, Mukwa and Miin, are foster siblings unrelated by blood but connected to the green-pulse of the planet by their adoptive grandmother, Samantha, a traditional healer and mystic. After reaching the mainland, the scouts are targeted by traffickers, abducted by eco-elves, and are astonished--as readers will be--at Mother Nature's resurgence. Island and Main is a dark exploration of humanity and the hope and healing offered by community and our connection to nature.

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We as the Anishinabe Nation know such things as prophetic dreams and channeling knowledge from the stars is as real as the nose on your face. Joshua Veith has told a tale that will come to be known as the time of the great culling. This book will send shivers of truth down your spine. - Courtney Miller, medicine person, activist, and dancer Joshua Veith puts northern Michigan on the map with his dystopian thriller, Island and Main, where a plucky band of holdouts on Beaver Island wage a last stand against the collapse of civilization in the aftermath of a viral epidemic. Veith offers a heady blend of speculative fiction, horror, hard science, and Native wisdom, written with the deft hand of a poet. - Robert Downes, author The Wolf and The Willow

We as the Anishinabe Nation know such things as prophetic dreams and channeling knowledge from the stars is as real as the nose on your face. Joshua Veith has told a tale that will come to be known as the time of the great culling. This book will send shivers of truth down your spine. - Courtney Miller, medicine person, activist, and dancer Joshua Veith puts northern Michigan on the map with his dystopian thriller, Island and Main, where a plucky band of holdouts on Beaver Island wage a last stand against the collapse of civilization in the aftermath of a viral epidemic. Veith offers a heady blend of speculative fiction, horror, hard science, and Native wisdom, written with the deft hand of a poet. - Robert Downes, author The Wolf and The Willow Island and Main mesmerizes with its Tolkien references, Anishinaabe culture, local lore and historic maps. The first book of Joshua Veith's Sudden Quiet series is spellbinding, bringing readers to eerily familiar places scarred by what might have been. -Jennifer Harsha Carroll, artist, writer, editor. Charlevoix, Michigan Island and Main is a deeply felt visit to a dark and uncertain future. It made me want to try living there for a spell. -James Howard Kunstler, author of the World Made by Hand novels As documentary filmmakers we strive to anticipate the future and record the present, Joshua Veith has done this in a dark and powerful way. His debut novel, Island and Main, creates a cinematic world that will captivate readers of all genres. Veith has crafted a beautiful novel filled with deep character development and fulfilling storylines that makes it hard to put down. -Christina Clusiau and Shaul Schwarz, Emmy winning directors of Trophy and Immigration Nation

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Joshua Veith is an educator, adventurer, and outdoor enthusiast. He has traveled to more than 30 countries-including China, Nepal, Syria, and Turkey-and once made a 19-day Pacific Ocean crossing on a cargo freighter from Seattle to Hong Kong. For three years Josh worked as a deckhand on commercial fishing trawlers on the Atlantic. He spent a year studying at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg, Germany, andgraduated from the University of Michigan, later earning an MA in Literature from Eastern Michigan University.Today Joshua lives with his wife and two sons in northern Michigan, fishes and hikes in the same spots that Hemingway enjoyed as a young man, and teaches a literature class on JRR Tolkien. As a public school teacher and writer, Josh strives to be an Indigenous ally, recognizing that traditional relationships with the environment offer the most sustainable pathways for humankind's interaction with the planet.

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