By Lily Yengle ’13

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I have found it: possibly the best book, ever.

We know what humans do during a zombie apocalypse- hole up in an abandoned building, arm yourself with sawed-off shotguns and promise to shoot your friends before they can return from the dead. But what do the zombies think of all this?

R is different. He is a “zombie with an existential crisis.” Though he can only mumble a few syllables at a time (“…hungry…eat…brains…”), his inner monologue is lucid and elegant, not at all what you’d expect from a rotting corpse.

Through him we see the other side – why brains are especially desirable, what zombies do when they are not feasting on human organs, what it is like to be neither dead nor alive.

Then on one hunting trip, everything changes. And R, the lovable monster, starts something that begins to blur the lines between Dead and Alive. And though they may be causing the end of civilization as we know it, R and his fellow zombies find that maybe the alive humans aren’t the only ones who can fight to save the world.

Gross and ridiculous, sweet and poignant, this book is a string of absurdities tied together with artful prose and the inner thoughts of the most endearing flesh-eating corpse you’ll ever meet. Seriously, go read this book right now. Read…book…now…brains.