From award-winning author Daryl Gregory, whom Library Journal called
"[a] bright new voice of the 21st century," comes a new breed of
zombie novel--a surprisingly funny, vividly frightening, and ultimately
deeply moving story of self-discovery and family love.
In 1968, after the first zombie outbreak, Wanda Mayhall and her three
young daughters discover the body of a teenage mother during a
snowstorm. Wrapped in the woman's arms is a baby--stone-cold, not
breathing, and without a pulse. But then his eyes open and look up at
Wanda, and he begins to move. The family hides the child--whom they name
Stony--rather than turn him over to authorities who would destroy him.
Against all scientific reason, the undead boy begins to grow. For years,
his adoptive mother and sisters manage to keep his existence a
secret--until one terrifying night when Stony is forced to run, and he
learns that he is not the only living dead boy left in the world.
