“ A seemingly random group of strangers, doomed to weather a weekend together in a wilderness retreat, struggle to enjoy the wildlife, their hosts, and each other’s company. Carnes slyly reveals just how blind each of them is to their connections to each other, and to the long-ago travelers who tried to survive Malheur. (Think Agatha Christie meets Ionesco, both desperate for a cell phone signal.) An eerily poetic black comedy. ”