Fantasy Book Group

Fantasy Book Group with Ashli
Discussing Dread Nation by Justina Ireland
Led by Greenlight Events Coordinator Ashli, the Fantasy Book Group meets monthly to explore the realm of fantasy storytelling, from cozy to romantasy, high to urban or contemporary, YA to anthologies, and more! Whether you're a lifelong fantasy lover or a burgeoning fan, we welcome you here.
For February, the group discusses Justina Ireland's New York Times and six-time starred reviewed bestseller, Dread Nation. 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. 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, like Jane, attend combat schools to learn to put down the dead. But when families around Baltimore County begin to go missing, Jane is caught in the middle of a conspiracy—and the restless dead, it would seem, are the least of her problems... At once provocative, terrifying, and darkly subversive, Dread Nation is 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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