2011 book 165

Daryl Gregory's Raising Stony Mayhall
OK, I know I solemnly swore to stop reading zombie books after I had some pretty freaky zombie nightmares, but this isn't really a zombie book--or well, it's totally a zombie book, but it's not a horror book. See, what happens is, it's the late 60s and there was a zombie outbreak but it was stopped pretty quickly. And soon afterward, the Mayhall family--a mom and three daughters--find a baby with his dead mother on the side of the road. And he's dead too. But not. Zombie baby!!! So they raise him up and he's not the usual zombie, and his story--and the story of the rest of the Living Dead--turn out to be pretty fascinating. And though this is a zombie book, it is really a book about family. And always having an escape route. A-.