Her plans may be dashed, however, by her poor results in an exam regarding European place settings and the appropriate titles for nobles. She’s got no intention of being an Attendant to anyone but her Mama back in Kentucky, and once she’s had her fill of training, she’ll head home and protect the folks on the family plantation. She’s clever, resourceful, deadly with a sickle and a wee bit independent.
Jane McKeen is a student at Miss Preston’s. A place where training in etiquette and battle are equally important, the school provides Attendants to young women of good breeding, ensuring that the well-to-do have a lady’s maid who can set a fine table and kill any undead who try to eat the guests. Miss Preston’s School of Combat for Negro Girls is just that kind of establishment.
Funded by Congress, these special schools produced young men and women of color expertly trained in the art of zombie killing. One response is the Negro and Native Reeducation Act. A truce was quickly established and hasty solutions to the serious problem of humanity falling to the zombie plague began. No, the North and South were forced to put aside political differences when the dead rose on the battlefield of Gettysburg, eating anyone living regardless of the color of their uniform. Part Zombie Land, part Django Unchained, channeling a bit of The Hunger Games and also something wholly original, this is a tale of what happens when the undead rise while America’s race war rages.
She holds a BA in History from Georgia Southern and an MFA in Creative Writing from Hamline University.If you read only one YA novel this year, make it Dread Nation. She is a former editor in chief of FIYAH Literary Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction, for which she won a World Fantasy Award. Justina Ireland is the New York Times bestselling author of numerous books including Dread Nation and its sequel Deathless Divide, the middle-grade novel Ophie's Ghosts, which won the Scott O'Dell award for historical fiction, and a number of Star Wars books including Flight of the Falcon: Lando’s Luck, Spark of the Resistance, A Test of Courage, Out of the Shadows, and Mission to Disaster. She holds a BA in History from Georgia Southern and an MFA in Creative Writing from Hamline University.
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