Matt, a fledgling screenwriter, volunteers to work with the terminally ill in exchange for a good plot for his next script. He meets the people who work, die, and mourn in this world of last
moments. In the novel-in-stories style of Tim O��rien�� July July and Charles Baxter�� The Feast of Love, O��onnell�� characters in Evacuation Plan reveal themselves in poignantly unfolding
stories: the gambler who played a risky game involving his wife and his ex-con father; the mortician who was an unwed father-to-be; the daughter whose dying father had no clue about the night
her world spun out of control; the nurse who lived among aging neighbors and struggled to hold her own family in place; the drunk who magically encountered himself as a boy. Forgiveness, joy,
making the final leap, Evacuation Plan is the story of a world in which the clock ticks off the final moments for all of us and makes of those moments a lifetime.
