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The coffee maker woke before the alarm. The power had gone out again. And seventeen missed calls from his mother meant the world had finally stopped pretending it was fine. Elian Torres spent thirteen years studying how civilizations collapse. He never expected to live through one. When cascading economic failures and climate disasters shatter the institutions that held modern life together, Elian finds himself leading a group of strangers north through frozen highways, military checkpoints, and the slow unraveling of everything he thought he understood about human nature. What begins as desperate survival becomes something more: a settlement called the Circle, built on the radical idea that cooperation isn't naive -- it's the only technology that has ever saved us. But building a community is harder than surviving a collapse. Trust must be earned. Conflicts must be faced. And a growing movement that burns libraries and calls knowledge ""institutional poison"" is getting closer. When the World Let Go is the first book in the When the World Held Hands trilogy -- a story about what ordinary people build when the systems that were supposed to protect them fall apart. For readers of Station Eleven and The Road who want to know what comes after the end.

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