It turns out that some individuals are fleeing west to escape sins from back east. Katsu adds suspense by delving into her characters’ backgrounds. Sadly, things take a tragic turn, as people start to go missing, thinning the group one by one. Multiple families, men, women, and children all hope for a better life out west, and prepare themselves for the rough voyage ahead. Warnings of danger are displayed about, but the group decides to press on anyway. Upon reading them, they find each letter warning those traveling west to turn around before it’s too late.
Not far into their journey, Donner and his family find hundreds of letters kept under rocks.
What they find instead is something truly horrific, and the story goes back to June of 1846, when George Donner first began leading the wagon train west, to tell things from the very beginning. In early 1847, a team desperately searched for Lewis Keseberg in hopes of rescuing the lone survivor of the hellish expedition. one with a supernatural twist that paints an entirely new picture.
History tells us that the Donner Party was a group of American pioneers who set out in the late 1840s to reach California, a journey that should have taken no longer than six months, only to be met with a series of mishaps and pitfalls - with many turning to cannibalism as a way to survive.īut in The Hunger, Alma Katsu tells a different story. .
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