The Leftovers

What Would Happen If The Rapture Actually Took Place And Millions Of People Just Disappeared From The Earth? How Would Normal People Respond? The Residents Of Mapleton Use A Variety Of Coping Mechanisms In This Thought-provoking Novel About Love, Connection, And Loss. What If -- Whoosh, Right Now, With No Explanation -- A Number Of Us Simply Vanished? Would Some Of Us Collapse? Would Others Of Us Go On, One Foot In Front Of The Other, As We Did Before The World Turned Upside Down? This Is A Story Of What Happens To The Left Behind People After The Biblical Rapture Actually Occurs. Tom Perrotta.