MixedThe Los Angeles Review of Books...though the movement has spread across the country, there is a reason that the occupation started in New York. The city is the beating heart of the crimes under protest, as it is the heart of Colson Whitehead’s satirical zombie novel, Zone One ... The book reflects 21st-century New York: post 9/11, mid-recession, in the thick of incomprehensible wars that continue without any end in sight ... In Zone One, apocalypse is like a subway car, yet another container that throws random urbanites together ... Spitz is so emotionless that he’s almost zombielike himself ... The structure of the novel — it moves around in time — doesn’t do much to build narrative tension. There are few unanswered questions or developing relationships. Instead, Whitehead seems interested in crafting a mood, one of psychological difficulty and labor.
