After all, the police only look for the white kids. Sixteen-year-old Raquel does her best to ignore it.
Stranger Things meets Get Out in this Sapphic Horror debut from nonbinary, Afro-Latine author Vincent Tirado.Īn urban legend rumored to be responsible.Īnd one group of teens determined to save their city at any cost.įor over a year, the Bronx has been plagued by sudden disappearances that no one can explain. So as a fan of zombie books – yes, still – I was thrilled to find a couple of new titles that not only add a fresh and unique perspective to the genre, but are written by people of color and give voice to groups of people who have been under represented in the zombie lore. But again, the stories were by and largely being told by white authors and full of white representation. The same can be said for zombie books, which were very prevalent back around the early 2010s when The Walking Dead and World War Z were rocking the airwaves. It’s easy for me, a white woman who has been a teen librarian for 30 years, to say that I’m over vampire books (which I’m not, by the way), but many readers have never gotten to see themselves represented in the prolific vampire stories of the early 2000s. And by recently I mean a few months ago, long enough ago that I unfortunately can’t find the thread or tweet to give them proper credit. Lewis's debut novel explores love, zombies, and everything in between in an intoxicating amalgam of the real and the fantastic.Do you think we’ve had enough vampire books or zombie novels? I recently read some people discussing how vampire stories aren’t over and done until we get to read an over abundance of vampire stories written by people of color. In this surrealist journey of grief, fear, and hope, Britney S. He contradicts everything she thought she knew about monsters, and she can't help but wonder if getting to know him might unlock the answers to her mother's death.Īs Zharie sifts through what's real and what's magic, she discovers a new truth about the world: Love can literally change you-for good or for dead. Z wants nothing to do with him, but when he transforms into a half zombie right before her eyes, something feels different. Then Bo moves into her apartment building-tall, skateboard in hand, freckles like stars, and an undeniable charm.
And why, ever since that day, she's been seeing zombies everywhere. Why her mother died, why her aunt doesn't want her around, why all her dreams seem suddenly, hopelessly out of reach. Sixteen-year-old Zharie Young is absolutely certain her mother morphed into a zombie before her untimely death, but she can't seem to figure out why. They all stared at me, bumping into one another and slowly coming forward.
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