★ "It's a strong precedent that will leave readers eager for
more."
--Publishers Weekly (starred review)
**Grievers is the story of a city so plagued by grief that it can no
longer function.
**
Dune's mother is patient zero of a mysterious illness that stops people
in their tracks--in mid-sentence, mid-action, mid-life--casting them
into a nonresponsive state from which no one recovers. Dune must
navigate poverty and the loss of her mother as Detroit's hospitals,
morgues, and graveyards begin to overflow. As the quarantined city
slowly empties of life, she investigates what caused the plague, and
what might end it, following in the footsteps of her late researcher
father, who has a physical model of Detroit's history and losses set up
in their basement. She dusts it off and begins tracking the sick and
dying, discovering patterns, finding comrades in curiosity, conspiracies
for the fertile ground of the city, and the unexpected magic that
emerges when the debt of grief is cleared.