After the Birds Fell is a postapocalyptic speculative YA novel filled with humor, horror, and hope.

It’s 2053, five years after an engineered virus wiped out most human and animal life on Earth. Seventeen-year-old Izzy is going through the motions of survival. Alone. In the ruins of Seattle that is now overgrown with dangerous vegetation.

SAL, her only companion (a neuro-integrated AI) has calculated she is eleven months from a functional collapse, and he intends to stop it from happening. He needs to give Izzy a reason to survive, and soon finds it—in Nola, a feral, cheeky eight-year-old girl, wounded and abandoned by a group of drifters.

But will it be enough? Will the girls find a reason to keep going? Will they follow the horses into the last human city or stay behind? Will they find out what happened those five years ago and does it matter?