Alden Bell is a pseudonym for Joshua Gaylord, whose first novel, Hummingbirds, was released in 2009. He teaches in a New York City prep school and is an adjunct professor at The New School. He lives in New York City with his wife Megan Abbott, an Edgar Award winner.
For twenty-five years, civilization has survived in meager enclaves, guarded against a plague of the dead. Temple wanders this blighted landscape, keeping to herself and keeping her demons inside her heart. She can’t remember a time before the zombi...[SEE MORE]