
Left without parents in a post-apocalyptic world, fifteen-year-old Parker tries to provide for himself and his little sister, but he faces obstacles even more challenging than merely finding food. In this lawless new non-society, Parker tries to navigate around criminals, despots, and desperados, while trying to make, or find, a place suitable to call home. He discovers a gift that he never knew he had, which complicates their lives and makes it both harder and sweeter for both of them.
This post-apocalyptic novel by veteran author Elizabeth Engstrom is a haunting treatise on our lives and times and the spiritual realities that might save us all. She takes a new look at what could easily be our future and finds some unexpected beauty.
"In this uniquely balanced and engrossing tale, the seeds of something new arise from a post-apocalyptic horror." -Susan Palmer, author of The Tabernacle Bar and The Booker Rebellion
"The Itinerant is emotionally gripping and vividly realized-a post-apocalyptic tale with a perfect mix of the darkness and the light. From beginning to end, Elizabeth Engstrom leaves no doubt you're in the hands of a great writer and a master storyteller. It's a pleasure to lose yourself in such wonderful book." -Matthew Lowes, author of The End of All Things and That Which is Before You.
"The Itinerant will shatter your heart and then seamlessly glue it back together in this novel about a uniquely-gifted boy and his little sister who must find their way in a perilous post-apocalypse world. This riveting book starts with a hauntingly beautiful crisis: a global pandemic." -Paul Neville, award-winning author of The Garbage Chronicles
"Elizabeth Engstrom reimagines the post-apocalyptic tale to deliver us one of abundance, possibility, and hope. The Itinerant doesn't depict surviving mankind as merely falling into the feudal mindset of might makes right. Instead, a more thoughtful mankind emerges, with a spiritual component not tied to religious doctrine." -Alan M. Clark, author of Fallen Giants of the Points and Mudlarks and the Silent Highwaymen