When the world ended, Mallory was eleven years old. What Really Happened documents Mallory's experiences from the apocalypse, as well as the survivors she knew, and how it changed them. It encompasses destruction, death, and despair, as well as hope, love, and life. This completely blunt memoir doesn't hold anything back, and doesn't shy away from the awkwardness of growing up, or the bleakness of the world falling apart. As the survivors battled with what it took to survive, they discovered how much they could lose before they lost themselves. Some were made weaker, some were made stronger, and some learned to change the world itself. These are the stories of who made it, and who didn't. Told through Mallory's eyes.
Living in an apocalypse was hard enough as it was - Gloria Peletier knew that as well as anyone. But her life had been hard since the moment she was born, having an abusive father. When the apocalypse hit and her father finally died, she was grateful for the walker that ate him, freeing her, her mom, and her sister from him - even if that meant losing their camp.
But then Sophia, her baby sister by ten years, goes missing. In walker-infested woods.