Zone One’s narrator, nicknamed “Mark Spitz,” is one of them once a marketing cog and law-school applicant, he ran for his life after seeing his parents infected, and wound up hiding out in toy stores and in trees before being assigned to “sweeper” duty in New York City. has brought survivors into refugee camps, encouraging them to help rebuilding efforts under the banner of the “American Phoenix” nevertheless, suicides are rampant, and 75 percent of Americans suffer from Post-Apocalyptic Stress Disorder. With the initial zombie infestation, an event known as “Last Night,” having subsided, the northeastern U.S. He’s a morose guard of the new world order. Even with bloodthirsty zombies lurking around every corner, Whitehead’s chosen mouthpiece for plague-ridden America dwells on the crushing inevitability of his situation. Zone One, the fifth novel from Colson Whitehead (The Intuitionist, John Henry Days, Sag Harbor) takes place after the apocalypse, but its plot is formed from puzzle, not pursuit.
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