Somehow a foggy-dark, meandering post-apocalyptic exploration that breathes well and isn't rushed. It's no The Road, and has faint echoes of Cloud Atlas and other crossing-timelines themes, but it's mislabeled as sci-fi. It's fic, or lit-fic, and character focused. Pace is slow as in meandering, not as in plodding. 

The audiobook version is well narrated, and paced well.