

She is a family-oriented girl and when her family contracts a life-threatening flu virus she nurses them through it with no fear for her own health or safety. She is a passionate swimmer, but only took up swimming after an ankle injury ended her ice skating career. She is a normal, well-adjusted and happy teen whose life was more about friends and activities prior to the disaster than it was about impending doom and survival technique. She is also the narrator, of sorts, because her journal forms the narrative. Sixteen year old Miranda is the protagonist of the novel.

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