Joan Frances Turner was born in Rhode Island and grew up in the Calumet Region of northwest Indiana. A graduate of Brown University and Harvard Law School, she lives near the Indiana Dunes with her family and a garden full of spring onions and tiger lilies, weather permitting. "Dust" is her first novel.
"Meet 15-year-old Jessica Anne Porter. She's a plucky teenager from
a town near Chicago who spends most of her time hanging out,
looking for something to eat, and finding a safe place to bed down
for the night. Jessie's not a homeless person, though. She's an
undead person. Turner's debut is a massively entertaining and
seriously revisionist zombie novel. How revisionist? Well, her
characters communicate with each other eloquently (although, to
humans, it sounds like a lot of grunts). They remember their past
lives: who they were, how they died. They have thoughts and
emotions, and when a new kind of creature, a sort of human-zombie
hybrid, appears out of nowhere, they feel fear. The author has
taken the familiar zombie clichTs and given them a good shake.
Jessie, who's been dead for nine years, is as real and human a
character as anyone you're likely to meet in the pages of a
mainstream novel, and Turner has created a new zombie mythology
that is smart, scary, and viscerally real. Recommend this one
highly to horror fans, even those who claim to have sated
themselves on zombies."
-David Pitt, "Booklist" (starred review)
"Meet 15-year-old Jessica Anne Porter. She''s a plucky teenager
from a town near Chicago who spends most of her time hanging out,
looking for something to eat, and finding a safe place to bed down
for the night. Jessie''s not a homeless person, though. She''s an
undead person. Turner''s debut is a massively entertaining and
seriously revisionist zombie novel. How revisionist? Well, her
characters communicate with each other eloquently (although, to
humans, it sounds like a lot of grunts). They remember their past
lives: who they were, how they died. They have thoughts and
emotions, and when a new kind of creature, a sort of human-zombie
hybrid, appears out of nowhere, they feel fear. The author has
taken the familiar zombie clichTs and given them a good shake.
Jessie, who''s been dead for nine years, is as real and human a
character as anyone you''re likely to meet in the pages of a
mainstream novel, and Turner has created a new zombie mythology
that is smart, scary, and viscerally real. Recommend this one
highly to horror fans, even those who claim to have sated
themselves on zombies."
-David Pitt, "Booklist" (starred review)
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