'Dread Nation' is a rollicking 'Gone With the Wind + Zombies' adventure

Two days after Jane McKeene was born – a black baby to a wealthy white woman in Civil War-era Kentucky – the dead began to rise from the bloody fields of Gettysburg. Now a teenager, Jane attends a combat academy where the curriculum is equal parts etiquette and execution.

I don’t know about you, but I’m all ears.

, Justina Ireland’s latest YA novel, is a rollicking “Gone With the Wind and Zombies” adventure with a biting commentary on contemporary race relations in America. Those