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Breathers
A Zombie's Lament
For fans of Max Brooks’s The Zombie Survival Guide and zombie aficionados everywhere, 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 reader, Breathers is a romantic zombie comedy (rom-zom-com, for short) that will leave you laughing, squirming, and clamoring for more.
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 reader, Breathers is a romantic zombie comedy (rom-zom-com, for short) that will leave you laughing, squirming, and clamoring for more.
Published: March 3, 2009
Pages: 320
ISBN: 9780767930611
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Feb 8, 2026
Well this was a fun one! Very much character based over plot based, but what would it be like if zombies were not only real, but had been living among us? The political ideas seem even fresher right now, but are not harped upon, you can totally wrap yourself up in the fantasy of it all—Zombies Man!—if you want to.
Poor Andy just wants to live his afterlife, but zombies have no rights, and that's a bummer, but he's trying to do something about it. We follow his low-level push to improve his and his friends' lives and it's really sweet... until it's not. This is a zombie book after all. And zombies gotta do what zombies gotta do.
It was easy to root for him and his quippy voice was always entertaining.
Poor Andy just wants to live his afterlife, but zombies have no rights, and that's a bummer, but he's trying to do something about it. We follow his low-level push to improve his and his friends' lives and it's really sweet... until it's not. This is a zombie book after all. And zombies gotta do what zombies gotta do.
It was easy to root for him and his quippy voice was always entertaining.