The Reapers Are the Angels by Alden Bell
What does the United States look like 25 years after zombies have led the nation into an apocalypse? What is life like for a teenager born ten years or so after the apocalypse? What has she seen, and done, and what is the state of her soul? These are the questions first-time novelist Alden Bell attempts to answer in The Reapers Are the Angels, a soul-searing novel that looks at some of life’s hardest questions through the lens of violence so common and natural it isn’t even evil… This is one of the oddest and best zombie novels you will ever read. The focus isn’t on the zombies at all… In some very strange ways, this book is almost a prayer of thanks for all that remains when the worst has happened… Read the rest.
This is one of my absolute favorite books.
This book sounds great!
With both you and Marion giving it rave reviews, I simply must read it!
I’m so glad you mentioned Bell’s exquisite prose. You know, I just read a book by his wife, Megan Abbott, and she is an excellent stylist also (and a good story-teller). To borrow a “soap-opera” expression, they’re a literary supercouple.