SuitabookResponsibility under threat
Dylan becomes obsessed with Ani and death; Ani bites him in self-defence, after which the possibility of wider danger is raised.
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Patrick Freivald - Author
This is a dark coming-of-age story about secrecy, belonging and self-acceptance, using an unusual undead condition to place ordinary teenage wishes beside danger, stigma and questions about who gets to define someone’s identity.
Ohneka Falls is a small, western New York town where everyone knows everyone and nothing of note happens. Ani Romero is a sixteen-year-old girl who wants to play sports, hang out and kiss Mike, her middle-school crush. A childhood carrier of the zombie virus, she died at fourteen but didn't become a mindless, brain-eating monster. Her controlling mother forces her to join the emo crowd to hide her condition behind a wall of black clothes and makeup, and her friends abandon her. When creeper Dylan learns her secret, he falls into obsession, with Ani and with death. She bites him in self-defense. Persecuted by the jocks and ignored by Mike, Ani struggles through the motions of life hoping her mother's research unveils a cure, or Dylan dooms them all to a hungry, walking death. As her emo facade crumbles in the face of jealousy and obsession, Ani knows that the worst thing she can do is be true to herself.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is a dark coming-of-age story about secrecy, belonging and self-acceptance, using an unusual undead condition to place ordinary teenage wishes beside danger, stigma and questions about who gets to define someone’s identity.
Dylan becomes obsessed with Ani and death; Ani bites him in self-defence, after which the possibility of wider danger is raised.
Be ready to discuss death, a zombie virus, social persecution, controlling parenting, obsession and a bite described as self-defence. The emotional weight of abandonment and fear may matter as much as the horror imagery.
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