Streams of Babel

When Cora Holmans mother dies, she assumes the inevitable: that her mother overdosed on the painkillers shed been taking for years. So shes shocked to learn that her mother and a neighbor both died of a brain aneurysm the same night. When Cora and other neighborhood teens become ill with a mysterious flu, and government-type strangers arrive in her small town, they all fear the unthinkablea terrorist attack.