Ex-military Mike Kendeil travels to a beach house on North Carolina's dissolving Outer Banks to help his grandmother, Florence Trudeau, rescue heirlooms from the swelling ocean. With a monster hurricane at their back and the contentious 2040 presidential election just a few weeks ahead, the two drive their loaded wagon home on a days-long journey to the Washington, DC suburbs.In 2040, America has one foot back in the nineteenth century and the other...