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The Frugal Chariots
Hardcover
Science FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $26.99
ISBN13: 9781997596547
Publisher: Otter & Osprey Press
Published: Sep 3 2026
Pages: 206
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The stories we tell are frugal chariots that carry us through our days.
In the aftermath of a virus that reset the world's calendar to year zero, a boy named Sage wakes in an abandoned army hospital on the island of Midlin - no memory of how he got there, only a cat, a notebook, and the wreckage of everything he has survived.
Sage is no hero. He is a former child soldier carrying guilt he cannot put down, afraid he will repeat every failure, abandoned by a brother he barely knew he had. And yet, impossibly, the task that falls to him is enormous: help save what remains of the human race.
Told across four voices - Sage's raw journal entries, the memos of a geneticist who sees something extraordinary in his DNA, the diary of a woman rebuilding herself from the rubble of a collapsed civilization, and the quiet reflections of the oldest living human on earth - The Frugal Chariots is a sweeping, deeply human novel about survival, family, folly, forgiveness, and what it means to finally find your way home.
The Frugal Chariots began during Rio Murphy's chemotherapy for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, was set aside, returned to, set aside again - and finally finished after a second cancer diagnosis and a pandemic. It is, as she puts it, her pony: the thing worth finding at the end of a yard full of manure.
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