new york (state)

Jimmy, perhaps the last living human unaltered by science, struggles for survival in a post-apocalyptic world as he tries to make sense of how everything went wrong, mourns the loss of his beloved Oryx, a girl he met through a kiddie porn Web site, and considers the role of his genius friend Crake who had been working on a formula for immortality at the RejoovenEsenseCompound.

Panic mounts in the sleepy little town of Aurelius, New York, after three young girls vanish, one after another, and soon it seems that no one is immune from suspicion.

In 1783, orphaned fourteen-year-old Livy and her cousin Ephraim are taken in by a woodsman and his family, including a young Seneca man who changes Livy's attitudes toward the Indians she was raised to hate and fear.

During the 1950s, five high school girls in upstate New York form a gang called Foxfire.

A cultural approach to the history of New York State emphasizing the way of life in this region over several centuries.