Z for Zachariah

There is no one left alive…I know, because after the war ended, and all the telephones went dead, my family went…to see what was happening. They never came back…
Ann Burden is sixteen and, as far she she knows, the only person left in the world. The nuclear radiation that destroyed the rest of the world has not touched the valley where she lives, and so she has remained, surviving as best she knows how, for the past year.
The smoke from a distant campfire shatters Ann’s solitude. Someone else is still alive, and making his way toward the valley: John Loomis, a scientist, protected from the radiation by a “safe-suit.” He asserts his will almost immediately. And as his behavior becomes more and more extreme – finally culminating in violent confrontation – Ann must choose how she will live, in a world unlike any she has known.