This episode of other people is brought to you by Zombie, the new novel by J.R.

Angelella, available now from Soho Press.

Here's some explanatory math regarding this book.

Zombie equals, a coming-of-age story minus sentiment times occultism.

Or, familial strife plus a studied appreciation for the finer points of zombie cinema,

plus sexual frustration divided by sadomasochism times a thousand

and if that math wasn't helpful then here are some words zombie is a book about a 14-year-old kid

with a pill-addicted mother a sex-addicted brother classmates addicted to torturing him and a father

who disappears nightly he survives life with a code cobbled together

from the zombie movies he's obsessed with, a code that's put to the test when he finds a video in

his father's closet of a stranger strapped to a bed being prepped for surgery. As he traces the video's

origin, zombie moves from a precocious beginning to an end of unthinkable violence.

J.R. Angelella's zombie is now available in paperback and ebook from Soho Press, which has been

independently publishing bold new voices in literature since 1986. That's Zombie by J.R.

Angelela. It's a book. You can read J.R. Angelella.

It's a book.

You can read it.

Go and get it.

Oh, my God.

You are not alone.

You have found other people.

You and I have a friend in common.

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