A highly contagious virus has changed the landscape of Nadia's world. Now, humans live within closed communities, each isolated from the next. They understand the fragility of these communities, that on any day, at any given moment, theirs could be ruined.

At home, in her closed community, Nadia remembers the year before the virus...

Humorous, existential, and personal, The Year Cricket Died is a thought-provoking chronicle of struggles with mortality, intimacy, disillusionment, and purpose.