Zombie (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781616950880)

A zombie movie-obsessed teen is forced to face a dark family secret in this shocking debut literary novel from a talented new author.

"Wow! A crazy, wicked knock-out of a book!" -Garth Stein

Fourteen-year-old Jeremy Barker attends an all-boys Catholic high school where roving gangs of bullies make his days a living hell. His mother is an absentee pillhead, his older brother a self-diagnosed sex-addict, and his father disappears night after night without explanation. Jeremy navigates it all with a code cobbled together from the zombie movies he's obsessed with: Night of the Living Dead, 28 Days Later, Planet Terror, Zombieland, and Dawn of the Dead among others.

The code is put to the test when he discovers in his father's closet a bizarre homemade video of a man strapped to a bed, being prepped for some sort of surgical procedure. As Jeremy attempts to trace the origin of the video, this remarkable debut moves from its sharp, precocious beginnings to a climax of almost unthinkable violence, testing him, and the reader, to the core.

Author: J. R. Angelella
ISBN-10: 1616950889
ISBN-13: 9781616950880
Publisher: Soho Press
Language: English
Published: 06/05/2012
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.50w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/19/2012 pg. 63
Library Journal 04/01/2012 pg. 69
Booklist 05/01/2012 pg. 83
Kirkus Reviews 05/01/2012
Kirkus Reviews 05/15/2012
Kirkus Bea Big Book Guide 05/15/2012 pg. 4