Interstellar anti-trafficking novel?
The female character is strong, there are very few emotional lines, and the male protagonist barely appears.
The author controls his own level very well and will not forcefully write a worldview and plot that is too big, too deep and easily unfinished.
On how college students can survive in the apocalypse. It's a group portrait story, with no special powers, the heroine, her roommate, her cousin, and a few male characters.