
He feels shame when his primal instinct drives him to hunt and kill the living, though he does achieve glimpses of enlightenment and a flash of what it means to be alive when he eats his victims' brains and gains their memories. He lives among his grunting and shuffling brethren, yet also apart in a 747 where he collects mementos of the living and listens to Frank Sinatra records. R is certainly not your typical zombie lit protagonist. Unlike the narratives you typically find in the genre-humans trying to survive a zombie apocalypse-this one is told from the perspective of an undead dude who experiences an existential crisis.


In his best-selling debut novel, Warm Bodies, Seattle author Isaac Marion offers a new take on zombie lit.
