This World We Live In is a young adult science fiction novel by American author Susan Beth Pfeffer, first published in 2010 by Harcourt Books.

In the afterword of The Shade of the Moon, Pfeffer states that she did not intend to continue the series after The Dead and the Gone until her publisher contacted her for a sequel featuring the characters of both books.

[2] A year after an asteroid collided with the Moon and pushed it closer to Earth, Miranda is awakened in the middle of the night by the sound of rain for the first time in months.

She and her brothers begin collecting rainwater, and, worried about the stability of their food supply, Matt and Jon decide to embark on a week-long fishing trip on the Delaware River.

Matt and Jon leave for the trip, and Miranda and her mother, Laura, prepare to store the fish in the flooded basement.

On the one-year anniversary of the impact, the boys leave for another fishing trip and Syl suggests that they make an offering to Diana.

In June, Miranda’s father Hal suddenly arrives at the house with Lisa and their newborn son Gabriel, along with a man named Charlie and Alex and Julie Morales.

The group met at an evacuation camp and began traveling together, but Alex claims that he plans to go to an Ohio monastery after dropping Julie off at a convent in upstate New York, which he had previously sent Briana to.

During an argument, Jon reveals that Julie told him that Alex has three passes to a safe city in an unknown location that he does not plan to use.

While everyone else works to free Lisa, Miranda stays with Julie and, remembering what Alex had planned, gives her the sleeping pills and smothers her to death with a pillow.

Grimly frightening imagery and spot-on depiction of day-to-day bleakness are emotionally potent", but "Given the circumstances, it is believable that their relationship would be rushed, but the initial antagonistic tone set up between them still seems too easily resolved, resulting in a formulaic feel.

"[4] Publishers Weekly declared that "Pfeffer masterfully evokes the cold, colorless world in which her characters reside" where "hope is never completely extinguished".