Book Talk: the dead & the gone

The Dead and the Gone is by Susan Beth  Pfeffer and is a non-fiction genre.  The plot of the book is about a 17 year old boy named Alex and lives with his two sisters, Julie and Brianna. One day, it has been rumored that an asteroid is supposed to hit the moon and is supposed to have a neutral outcome. The astroid hits the moon out of its orbit and causes chaotic events such as tsunamis, volcanoes, and other apocalyptic events. This does not end up well for Alex and his two sisters as they don’t have their parents with them and now they have to deal with what just happened.


Alex is a very protective person when it comes to his sister Julie. This is shown in page 300 and states the following “It didn’t matter. All that mattered was getting Julie to a safe place. If he succeeded at that, he could die knowing he’d done one thing right and that would be enough”. This means that Alex really cares about Julie and would die to have her be in a safe place.

I like this book because of how interesting and suspenseful it is. But sometimes there would be parts of the book that where Alex rambles about his past life and how life would have been with out the moon getting hit out of its orbit which is interesting but not suspenseful. I would recommend this book to people because of how interesting the story is and the events that go down. Overall, the theme of the book is to be grateful for what you have because it might eventually go away sooner than you think