Warm Bodies
CBC Books | CBC | Posted: June 13, 2017 6:24 PM | Last Updated: June 13, 2017
Isaac Marion
R is a young man with an existential crisis — he is a zombie. He shuffles through an America destroyed by war, social collapse and the mindless hunger of his undead comrades, but he craves something more than blood and brains. He can speak just a few grunted syllables, but his inner life is deep, full of wonder and longing. He has no memories, no identity and no pulse, but he has dreams.
After experiencing a teenage boy's memories while consuming his brain, R makes an unexpected choice that begins a tense, awkward, and strangely sweet relationship with the victim's human girlfriend. Julie is a blast of colour in the otherwise dreary and grey landscape that surrounds R. His decision to protect her will transform not only R, but his fellow Dead, and perhaps their whole lifeless world. (From Atria/Emily Bestler Books)
From the book
I am dead, but it's not so bad. I've learned to live with it. I'm sorry I can't properly introduce myself, but I don't have a name anymore. hardly any of us do. we lose them like care keys, forget them like anniversaries. Mine might have started with an "R," but that's all I have now. It's funny because back when I was alive, I was always forgetting other people's names. My friend "M" says the irony of being a zombie is that everything is funny, but you can't smile, because your lips have rotted off.
From Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion ©2011. Published by Atria/Emily Bestler Books.