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These 'Wanderers' Are Heading For The End Of The World
Chuck Wendig's massive new novel imagines a plague of sleepwalkers — unresponsive people endlessly walking to an unknown destination as a fearful, hate-ridden country tears itself apart around them.
by Gabino Iglesias
Jul 06, 2019
3 minutes
Political upheaval tends to push writers to create narratives that enter into conversation with the most salient themes of the time, and Chuck Wendig's Wanderers is one of those. A dystopian, apocalyptic novel that comfortably occupies a space between horror and science fiction, Wanderers is full of social commentary that digs into everything from global warming to racial tension, while never preaching or bogging down the action-packed story.
Shana wakes up one day to find that her sister, Nessie, is acting weird; she's walking barefoot along the road outside their house
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