Love In the time of Global Warming by Francesca Lia Block is the female version of Homer’s “Odyssey”.This story takes place in Los Angeles and Las Vegas.An earthquake destroyed both cities.The earthquake separated Penelope Overland,the Odysseus of this story, from her loved ones.Can goods have been Pen’s only source of survival,since most foods are gone. There are no signs of other human life at first, but there are giants roaming around.
Penelope Overland, a seventeen-year-old girl, lived a normal life before the earthquake changed everything.The mystical ability to gaze into strangers former lives is new to her. She was alone for 68 days until a group of men came looking for supplies.Merk ,one of the men, gives Pen a VW bus, that runs
