The Curtain Between Us
is a Christian dystopia with hints of utopian themes, historical twists on biblical classics, and references toward feminist literature and psychology.
Using familiar modern anxieties about the changing world order and Cold Ward themes of a nuclear holocaust,
predicts a post-nuclear world with isolated communes, roaming bands of lost souls, a depressed teenager, and a mother's love. The book jumps between narratives ranging from the perspective of the first woman, a cursed daughter and orphaned son, an outcast from a utopian mountain commune, and a cat living through the end of the modern age.
describes the physical and spiritual barrier imposed between God and man: Throughout these stories, history continues to progress as mankind's darkness ravages those around him. Broken souls are scattered throughout the book, and "the song of the broken," an eerie ballad of lament and longing, is interwoven between the characters. The origin of the song is a mystery. But so is the concept of existence itself.