The Witch Of Hebron by James Howard Kunstler

Set in a near-future rural America shattered by economic and infrastructural collapse, the novel follows a pragmatic town leader and his neighbors as they try to preserve crafts, community ties, and small-town decency while coping with predatory outsiders, rising religious fervor, and the lure of superstition; when a charismatic and feared woman in a ruined nearby settlement becomes the focal point for traveling trouble and moral panic, the community must make wrenching choices about violence, compromise, and what it will take to rebuild a humane, functioning society.

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