The Disability Book Archive

[ID: A book cover. The author’s name “Alison Evans” is at the top of the cover in big white capitals. Text above it reads “The award-winning author of ‘Ida’” in small white writing. ‘Ida’ is italicised. The title “Highway Bodies is in the centre in large white capitals. It’s is slightly faint, and overlaid with grey clouds and blood drops. Small white text at the bottom of the cover reads “Praise for Ida”. Below this, a quote from Books+Publishing reads “A landmark book in Australian YA”. The cover shows an abandoned road, with cars on the left side. Two bright street lights are lit, one on the right shows faint buildings in the far back, one on the road shows the silhouette of implied zombies coming towards the reader. Large grey clouds fill the upper two thirds of the cover. /end]

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Content Warning:

• Death
• Blood
• Gore
• Murder
• Animal Death
• Fire
• Misgendering
• References to Domestic Violence
• References to Child Abuse
• Knife Violence
• Stabbing
• Transphobia
• Explosion

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Summary:

Who will you rely on in the zombie apocalypse?

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Bodies on the TV, explosions, barriers, and people fleeing. No access to social media. And a dad who’ll suddenly bite your head off – literally. These teens have to learn a new resilience…

Members of a band wield weapons instead of instruments.

A pair of siblings find there’s only so much you can joke about, when the menace is this strong.

And a couple find depth among the chaos.

Highway Bodies is a unique zombie apocalypse story featuring a range of queer and gender non-conforming teens who have lost their families and friends and can only rely upon each other.

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Notes:

There is a Kindle edition.

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Archivist Comments:

Oh I have been looking forward to this one.

I added this one to my original spreadsheet after I’d added another book of Evans’, Long Macchiatos and Monsters. And those two books could not be more different. Talk about range.

People like how Australian it is and the diversity of the characters. I’m pretty sure there’s a character of Ethiopian descent, and I think there may also be a Pakistani character as well, but I’m not entirely sure on either these are TBC for now. Some people said they had difficulty with Evans’ writing style, and fact that the ending seems to be fairly open.

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