num_pages: 310
description: For fans of Chuck Palahniuk and Christopher Moore a hilarious debut novel about life (and love) after death.Meet Andy Warner a recently deceased everyman and newly minted zombie. Resented by his parents abandoned by his friends and reviled by a society that no longer considers him human Andy is having a bit of trouble adjusting to his new existence.But all that changes when he goes to an Undead Anonymous meeting and finds kindred souls in Rita an impossibly sexy recent suicide with a taste for the formaldehyde in cosmetic products and Jerry a twenty-one-year-old car-crash victim with an exposed brain and a penchant for Renaissance pornography.When the group meets a rogue zombie who teaches them the joys of human flesh things start to get messy and Andy embarks on a journey of self-discovery that will take him from his casket to the SPCA to a media-driven class-action lawsuit on behalf of the rights of zombies everywhere.Darkly funny surprisingly touching and gory enough to satisfy even the most discerning zombie fan Breathers is a dark comedy and social satire about life or undeath through the eyes of an ordinary zombie. It's Fight Club meets Shaun of the Dead  only with the zombies as the good guys.
language: English
title: Breathers: A Zombie's Lament
publisher: Crown