Zone One by Colson Whitehead

Zone One by Colson Whitehead, fiction, 259 pages.

This is the best zombie novels I have read, right up there with Max Brook's World War Z. Whitehead is a brilliant novelist and is a master of evoking a nostalgic feeling for his characters' pasts. He did this wonderfully in his recent memoir, Sag Harbor, and that same longing for the simpler times of adolescence and young adulthood pervades this post apocalyptic work. Now with a para-military group cleaning up after the massacre of most of New York City's inhabitants, Mark Spitz, the ironically nicknamed main character, fondly recalls the time right after the rise of the zombies, when he was on his own, sleeping in the trees at night. He recalls childhood memories of watching monster movies on his uncle's large TV on visits to Manhattan even as he tries to recall which of these empty hulks dotting the NY skyline hosted those scenes. A great book. Check our catalog.