This month we'll be meeting at the beautif ul Martin Luther King\, Jr. Memorial Library to discuss Drea d Nation by Justina Ireland:
\n"Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk th e battlefields of Gettysburg\, Pennsylvania&mdash\;derailing the War Betwe en the States and changing the nation forever. In this new America\, safet y for all depends on the work of a few\, and laws like the Native and Negr o Education Act require certain children attend combat schools to learn to put down the dead. But there are also opportunities&mdash\;and Jane is st udying to become an Attendant\, trained in both weaponry and etiquette to protect the well-to-do. It's a chance for a better life for Negro girls li ke Jane. After all\, not even being the daughter of a wealthy white Southe rn woman could save her from society's expectations. But that's not a life Jane wants. Almost finished with her education at Miss Preston's School o f Combat in Baltimore\, Jane is set on returning to her Kentucky home and doesn't pay much mind to the politics of the eastern cities\, with their t alk of returning America to the glory of its days before the dead rose. Bu t when families around Baltimore County begin to go missing\, Jane is caug ht in the middle of a conspiracy\, one that finds her in a desperate fight for her life against some powerful enemies. And the restless dead\, it wo uld seem\, are the least of her problems."
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