The Cabin At The End of The World

From a distance, Paul G. Tremblay’s The Cabin At The End of The World might be mistaken for a simple thriller. However, closer examination reveals it to be a powerful meditation on love, faith, madness, power, and sacrifice. A young girl and her fathers find their vacation interrupted by a group of bizarre strangers who believe they can only save the world by forcing the threesome to kill one of their own. The trip struggles to outwith their captors without falling under their spell, as violence escalates in the cabin and the outside world is rocked by a series of disasters that may (or may not) have supernatural implications. Tremblay has built a richly detailed cast of characters who all, captor and prisoner alike, feel trapped by forces beyond their control. Their struggles hold up a mirror to the full extent of humanity’s beauties and horrors. Tremblay weaves together the best of apocalyptic sagas, crime fiction, and family drama as he forces us to confront whether we really are worth saving.