![]() 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. It's a chance for a better life for Negro girls like Jane. 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. In this new nation, safety for all depends on the work of a few, and laws like the Native and Negro Re-education Act require certain children to attend combat schools to learn to put down the dead. 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. Shortlisted for the 2019 Hugo Awards: Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult BookĪ story of the undead like you've never read before, Justina Ireland's Dread Nation is a fresh, stunning, and powerful meditation on race in America wrapped in an alternate-history adventure where Confederate and Union soldiers rise from the dead at the end of the Civil War. ![]() ![]() Winner of the 2019 Locus Award for Young Adult Novel ![]()
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