The world experiences an abrupt and unthinkable cataclysm around the morning of October 29, 2018. Kevin March, senior high school band trombonist and wannabe article writer playing hooky, is definitely witness to its beginning. To stay alive, Kevin embarks on the journey that promises to improve everything just as before. On his journey, into a digital recorder he chronicles his encounters by the end of his world. This book is certainly a transcript of that recording.

Depicting an unspeakable apocalypse unlike any seen in fiction―there are no zombies, viruses or virals, no doomsday asteroid, no aliens, no environmental cataclysm, no nuclear holocaust―with a Holden Caulfieldesque protagonist at his world’s end, The Late Bloomer is normally both a partner piece to Lord from the Flies and a Bradburyian Halloween tale.

The Past due Bloomer is harrowing, grim, and poignant in the way of Cormac McCarthy’s THE STREET. Told in Kevin March’s singular and memorable voice, providing a gripping narrative with an unsparing climax as shifting as it is definitely terrifying, The Past due Bloomer defies expectations from the genre and will haunt those that read it.