Wanderers, which comes in at 800 pages, covers a lot of terrain. They know the disease was not meant for them, because "God wouldn't do that to Americans." This gives them a reason to kill everyone else.
While some blame the sleepwalkers on a new disease, a comet, or the Devil, the supremacists use it as an excuse for racial and ethnic cleansing. They also wear "their HUNT THE C*** T-shirts, their s***-kicker boots, their bright-white CREED SAVES AMERICA baseball hats." They are bigotry personified. They want to murder the president and vote for his opponent, a man who spouts a racist and homophobic rhetoric. Shana notes the problem isn't "the camo pants and the trucker hats" or "the long hair, the mullets, the scraggly beards." No, something about these "patriots" who hate the Democratic president - a woman - is worse. It's uncomfortable to read, but also a timely novel that demands a place in the spotlight.
'Wanderers' is engaging and entertaining. Loved ones follow the sleepwalkers on their journey they become known as shepherds, and the walkers are their flock. Are the sleepwalkers sick? Is this a pandemic? Is it a terrorist attack? Is it a sign of the end of the world? No one knows, and they can't hold the sleepwalkers down, get them to respond, or even get a blood sample because needles break against their skin. Soon a plethora of governmental agencies become involved. No one knows what's wrong with them, or where they're going, and attempts to physically restrain them lead to violent shaking, a rising temperature, and, if they're not released, an explosion. Soon others in a similar state join up with her, and this is how the wanderers start. The young girl seems to be sleepwalking, and every attempt to stop her or wake her up is unsuccessful. Shana wakes up one day to find that her sister, Nessie, is acting weird she's walking barefoot along the road outside their house and refusing to acknowledge Shana, or anyone else. A dystopian, apocalyptic novel that comfortably occupies a space between horror and science fiction, Wanderers is full of social commentary that digs into everything from global warming to racial tension, while never preaching or bogging down the action-packed story. Political upheaval tends to push writers to create narratives that enter into conversation with the most salient themes of the time, and Chuck Wendig's Wanderers is one of those. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Wanderers Author Chuck Wendig
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