There are also some racial slurs of the era ("darkie," "colored," "pickaninny," "coon," etc.) in the story. Like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, the book features a good deal of violence, as is appropriate in a story about zombie slayers (lots of deaths either from the undead eating live humans, or from humans shooting, stabbing, decapitating the undead, or from people beating, stabbing, and shooting one another). Author Justina Ireland explores what would've happened had zombies (or shamblers, as they're called in the book) stopped the war in order for Americans to come together to battle the undead (or force black and indigenous folks to fight them). Civil War ends - not with the South's surrender, but when the dead begin to rise up on the battlefields of Gettysburg and Chancellorsville. Parents need to know that Dread Nation is an alternative-history zombie thriller that takes place after the U.S.
In this new America, safety for all depends on the work of a few, and laws like the Native and Negro Education Act require certain children attend combat schools to learn to put down the dead.īut 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.īut that’s not a life Jane wants. Almost finished with her education at Miss Preston's School of Combat in Baltimore, Jane is set on returning to her Kentucky home and doesn’t pay much mind to the politics of the eastern cities, with their talk of returning America to the glory of its days before the dead rose.īut when families around Baltimore County begin to go missing, Jane is caught in the middle of a conspiracy, one that finds her in a desperate fight for her life against some powerful enemies.Īnd the restless dead, it would seem, are the least of her problems.Adults drink at dinners, men smoke pipes use of laudanum, smelling salts, other medicines is mentioned.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania-derailing the War Between the States and changing the nation forever.
Download a sneak peek of Dread Nation, featuring the prologue and first three chapters!Īt once provocative, terrifying, and darkly subversive, Dread Nation is Justina Ireland's stunning vision of an America both foreign and familiar-a country on the brink, at the explosive crossroads where race, humanity, and survival meet.
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