"The stories we tell are frugal chariots that carry us through our days."In the aftermath of a virus that reset the world's calendar to year zero, a boy named Sage wakes in an abandoned army hospital on the island of Midlin — no memory of how he got there, only a cat, a notebook, and the wreckage of everything he has survived.Sage is no hero. He is a former child soldier carrying guilt he cannot put down, afraid he will repeat every failure, abandoned by a ...