I heard the author on daytime talk radio who wrote the book "One Second After" by William Forstchen. It is a novel which I don't often read myself, but he writes it as though several EMP devices were set off to destroy the all electronics in the U.S. It covers the time after the event and how people in his area of N.C. had to cope with it.
In our house, my son grabbed it first when it came in, then my wife ( who is the one I really wanted to read it) and now I'm almost done. You have to consider how you would live using 1890's technology, if you still have any of it around.
