An American girl, sent to the English countryside to stay with relatives, finds love and purpose while fighting for her survival as war envelops the world around her.
Refreshingly free of digital apocalyptics and unnervingly prone to random violence.
– Geoff Pevere,
Globe and Mail,
15 Nov 2013
fresh:
How I Live Now centres on what happens to a group of young people when civilization begins to crumble. But it's also a poignant love story, a compelling, against-all-odds one at that.
– Bruce Demara,
Toronto Star,
14 Nov 2013
rotten:
"How I Live Now" makes World War III seem boring, which would hardly seem possible.
– Mick LaSalle,
San Francisco Chronicle,
14 Nov 2013
fresh:
There's a clear message here: Sometimes it takes extraordinary circumstances to realize it, but we all have the capacity to shed our petty concerns and focus on the greater good.
– Jocelyn Noveck,
Associated Press,
14 Nov 2013
fresh:
How I Live Now offers adolescents a lovely vision of holistic healing in the same countryside.