If you think being a zombie wouldn't be all that great,
you would be right, it's not; but it's not nearly as
horrible in Turner's version of the world as you might think.
When Jessie claws her way out of her casket, she is reborn
into a dark realm on the fringes of human society. She has
become that which she was taught to fear, but she has also
found freedom. After the first jolt of homesickness and
loss, she finds connection with others of her kind. There
are harsh rules of survival, but also joys both small and
large; even love, of a sort. Joe is a bad-ass biker who died
in the '50s. He is the ultimate in cool and a little rough.
Florian, nearing 300 years-of-life, can create tales of
history no book could ever match. Linc, whose mental voice
is like a lonely piano, has a kind heart death could not
erase. These and other people become her new family; her new
world.
Their constant hunger is assuaged by fresh deer or small
rabbits Jessie is powerful enough to bring down for herself
and her gang. They join together in midnight dances brought
on by some mysterious agency where
each of the resurrected have a part in music more beautiful
than the heart can bear and that only they can hear.
When a new type of being appears in their territory, no
longer human but not yet zombie, their way of life is
threatened. Jessie becomes key to the survival of both
humans and the dead who walk.
DUST is grim and realistic but balanced with unimaginable
beauty. Jessie's journey to save her world is engrossing.
You forget about the nastiness which is inevitable when
time meets dead flesh, and quickly find yourself caught up
in the larger quest...a new paradigm where humanity has a
much broader definition.
What happens between death and life can change a girl.
Jessie is a zombie. And this is her story...
Nine years ago, Jessie was in a car crash and died. After
she was buried, she awoke and tore through the earth to
arise, reborn, as a zombie. Now Jessie's part of a gang.
They fight, hunt, and dance together as one-something humans
can never understand. There are dark places humans have
learned to avoid, lest they run into zombie gangs. But when
a mysterious illness threatens the existence of both zombies
and humans, Jessie must choose between looking away or
staring down the madness-and hanging on to everything she
now knows as life...
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