It ’s not every daylight that you get to help out refugee and get your own personalized man of the Revelation at the same time . Total Oblivlion , More Or Less authorAlan DeNirohas hail up with a novel fundraising idea .
Total Oblivion , which has been getting rave inspection so far , deals with the problems of refugee passably directly , as you’re able to see from the synopsis :
In the summertime between Macy Palmer ’s junior and senior year of mellow school in Minnesota , Scythians , Thracians , and other ancient European kin group invade the Midwest . America becomes a ravage land where modern technology scantily run , a foreign plague is rampant , and American citizen fly for their lives . Many end up doing what the Empire – which comes equally out of nowhere to keep the peace – tells them to do . Macy and her phratry find themselves torn from their average lives and in a refugee encampment just alfresco of Minneapolis . They end up making a desperate journey down the Mississippi River , which has mutate into a dangerous waterway .
Macy loves her nonadaptive kinfolk but has to make difficult decisions about them during almost unendurable times . Through her journeying , she regain gothic skyscraper and degraded food stick operate by horse lords , befriends an puzzling submarine captain on the river , and bumble onto a bizarre religious fete called Promcoming . None of those wonder , however , challenge her as much as just growing up , and keeping her pity intact while doing so .
So DeNiro resolve to conflate his promotional efforts for the rule book withfundraising for Mercy Corps , which helps marginalized populations , including refugees , all over the worldly concern . But that ’s not all . If you make a contribution to Mercy Corps via DeNiro ’s fundraising page , he ’ll write a exceptional taradiddle fragment from the world of Total Oblivion , just for you . DeNiro explains :
for provide a more direct involution with the Koran , in whose spirit this fundraiser is read property , if you make a donation on this page , drop me a quick note ( adeniroATgmail.com ) and I ’ll send you something extra : a one - of - a - sort paragraph of ephemera and apocrypha set in the reality of the novel , made just for you ! It could be anything . And I can send it by post or e-mail . I ’m light . ( River transferral of ring mail post is forthcoming . ) Just let me experience which you ’d prefer and I ’ll get it out to you in about a week . So hopefully we can , in some little way , assist others in make an impactful change .
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