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So there's [[After the End|an unspecified disaster]] that happened at some point before the book starts. It killed off [[That Poor Plant|trees]], animals, [[Memetic Badass|cockroaches]], [[AI|sarcastic pimp-bots that look like Jude Law]] -- and yet somehow a handful of humans lived through it. This is a huge clue that we're not supposed to take this as literally After The End; all the human characters are actually dead. The boy is actually an angel and he is helping the father [[Ascend to Aa Higher Plane of Existence|ascend to Heaven]] (remember all that business about "carrying the light"). The father's death was actually his ascension, and the angel/boy will go on to save the people who show up at the very end.

[[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin]].