The novel opens on September 22, with Kate Holland and her husband, Dan moving into the small, isolated community of Greenloop, taking over the home that had belonged to her brother. Combined with some footnotes that provide additional factual background to the story, Devolution is quite effective, despite the novel's subtitle giving away the ultimate resolution of the novel. With his new novel, Devolution, he returns to using elements of oral history, notably interviews with Senior Ranger Josephine Schell and Frank McCray, Jr., but only to provide additional context to the majority of the novel, which is presented as the journal kept by McCray's sister, Kate Holland. When Max Brooks detailed the Zombie apocalypse in World War Z, he presented the novel as an oral history of the events that occured.
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