Dread Nation (Dread Nation, #1)

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455 pages

English language

Published July 30, 2018 by Balzer & Bray.

ISBN:
978-0-06-257060-4
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Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Civil War era America derailing the War Between the States and changing the nation forever. In this new nation, safety for all depends on the work of a few, and laws like the Native and Negro Reeducation Act require certain children to attend combat schools to learn to put down the dead. But there are also opportunities and Jane is studying to become an Attendant, trained in both weaponry and etiquette to protect the well-to-do. It s a chance for a better life for Negro girls like Jane. After all, not even being the daughter of a wealthy white Southern woman could save her from society s expectations.

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I'm a sucker for a good zombie book. Add in an alternate-history Reconstruction timeline and a badass female main character, and I'm pretty much sold. (Plus, have you seen that cover? Amazing.)

Jane McKeane is a student at Miss Preston's, a school where black girls learn combat and etiquette in order to secure jobs as Attendants for white women after they graduate. All she wants to do is take down shamblers, learn as much as she can, and return to Rose Hill and her mother—who happens to be the plantation's mistress. Jane's never one to follow the rules, however, and her refusal to stand aside for injustice lands her in more trouble than she could have imagined. After she and two companions are shipped off to Summerland, a Survivalist outpost in Kansas, Jane sees even more clearly that some pre-Civil War ideas about race haven't died. Even scarier, though, she …

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Subjects

  • African Americans
  • Conspiracies
  • Zombies
  • Fiction