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Reviewed by Dinorah Blackman for Readers' Favorite
Shirley Goleski is a woman on a mission. After seeing the conditions of our planet, she did some extensive research and came up with a plan. The Grand Plan is very detailed and thorough. The instructions are clear and easy to follow, she believes. After all, they only call for us to get up and move to Mars. But now comes the really difficult part: getting others to see the need to move to another planet. According to Goleski’s research, Mars is available for immediate population. She includes statements from NASA saying that the climate on Mars is much like the climate on Earth. Money isn’t an issue either, because the funds that have been invested in wars are more than enough to ensure that everybody gets there safely. Apparently, not everybody sees what she sees, though, and few are interested in uprooting their lives here on Earth to sail off into the unknown. For Goleski, a big part of the problem lies in the fact that people aren’t paying attention to what’s going on around them. People haven’t yet realized that life is short and we don’t really know what happens in the afterlife. So the time to act is now.
The Grand Plan is written in the form of 18 letters containing specific instructions regarding all the steps that must be taken in order to conserve human life. In Shirley Goleski’s mind, mankind, as we know it, is headed for destruction and we need to take action to prevent this from happening. Goleski includes letters to politicians and even to the Jewish nation, urging them to react to the warning. The Grand Plan, however, only includes salvation for the inhabitants of the United States, not for other humans in other parts of the world. Shirley Goleski’s fear of the future probably stems from an unfortunate event that occurred during her childhood. Seventy-one years later, she wrote out these instructions and ended her warning with her story; a story in which the reader is free to jump to conclusions, however grim those may be.
