Little House on the Wasteland by Laura Ingalls-Wei

Many thanks to Reedsy/Discovery for the ARC in exchange for an honest review. Our storyteller's cleverness with spelling and pronunciation made me laugh out loud at times, and I adored the song choices that dotted the pages of this read. The story elements are a delight and the character development deep and most worthy of something with the 'Laura Ingalls' name attached. When I call this story a joy, I mean that while the subject matter is tough and heavy and mostly not pretty, the writing is simply superb. They must make friends with those they might not otherwise interact with and trust in people who might otherwise be untrustworthy. They must stand up to villains and those exhibiting signs of the illness. They must take shelter in places you and I wouldn't dream of. This is the story of that journey and the trials and tribulations the family faces on that long trip. And that's when they take to the (former) road in search of a new life in the wastelands, what once was the midwest. It is what it is.īut you have little Laura, her two sisters and ma and pa eking out an existence in what was once Wisconsin. But Laura and her family live safe in their little house in the. Elsewhere, war and hunger and disease still linger. Laura was born many years after the Great Bust. Even buildings and roads have gone by the wayside. Once, there was a little girl named Laura who lived in an abandoned cabin deep in the big woods of what was once Wisconsin. No cars, trucks, buses, manufacturing, restaurants, newspapers. apart financially and physically, but we do know one thing: a plague (or 'ague' as our characters refer to it) has wreaked havoc on the world and the things we take for granted in 2020 are no longer available. We aren't privy to the year this story takes place or what caused the Great Bust that pulled the U.S. Little House on the Wasteland is the story of Laura and her family and their desire to find some semblance of peace at a time when it's every man for himself. It's not often that I refer to a post-apocalyptic book as a 'joy' to read because, well, the subject matter usually isn't that joyful, but it's the perfect descriptor here.

Little House on the Wasteland by Laura Ingalls-Wei