Review: Rust in the Root

Rust in the Root by Justina Ireland
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Though it’s not a spin-off of her signature alternate historical horror series Dread Nation, Justina Ireland says in the acknowledgements for this standalone novel that her research for those two books led her to a digitized Library of Congress archive of photos of Black Americans in the Depression era, which helped catalyze her into writing this novel. These photos are featured between chapters, much like Miss...