They have some surprising and dangerous secrets that play out in a story that's suspenseful, cynical and deeply funny. SUMMERS: And it seems like Aaron's business partners and roommates, Brittany and James, take that slogan really seriously. And it says, so you don't get tired during the apocalypse. SUMMERS: Aretha thinks her ideal partner could be Aaron, the owner of Tactical Coffee, a company that sells coffee beans with aggressive branding.ĬAULEY: The bag has an image of a guy running with an assault rifle on one side and a full cup of coffee that's sloshing over the top on the other. And she puts that perfectionism to her search for her ideal partner. But she lives in New York City, where those things are very, very hard to acquire. When we meet her, she's overworked and underwhelmed by most of the men she's meeting on dating apps.ĬAULEY: She's, like, a have 2.5 kids, you know, picket fence kind of person. It's called "The Survivalists." The main character is a millennial attorney named Aretha. SUMMERS: Cauley has channeled some of those fears into her debut novel. It wasn't that they necessarily took all of it seriously, but they had big fears. KASHANA CAULEY: For a while, my parents' favorite movie was "Conspiracy Theory" with Mel Gibson and Julia Roberts.
What could set an accomplished comedy writer and former lawyer down a path to writing about preparing for an apocalypse? For Kashana Cauley, it might have started with how she grew up in Wisconsin.
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