21 Ways to Eat a Cockroach

By Samuel DenHartog

After the bombs fall, the world does not end all at once. It goes quiet. An old woman survives beneath her ruined country property in a forgotten bomb shelter, waiting for instructions that never come. When the food is gone and the shelter becomes more grave than refuge, she opens the door and walks toward the dead city of Fort Wayne, where the only things still thriving are rats, cockroaches, and hunger.

Alone, aching, and half-starved, she searches burned stores, flooded basements, empty houses, pharmacies, churches, schools, and hospital corridors for anything that might keep her alive one more day. Canned food becomes treasure. Fire becomes a wall. A working can opener feels like salvation. But every night brings claws in the dark, every wound could turn fatal, and every meal asks how much of herself she is willing to lose in order to survive.

Told in a stark first-person voice, this haunting survival story follows one woman through the ruins of civilization as she learns to eat what once horrified her, sleep beside danger, and carry grief without letting it stop her. Grim, intimate, and unsettling, it is a story of hunger, memory, fear, and the stubborn human will to keep moving when the world has gone silent.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GYPS614S
• ISBN13: 9798259037809
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"