In this brilliantly entertaining send-up of zombie lit, Edgar Award winner and National Book Award finalist Jess Walter offers a twist on Americaâ€™s favorite monster: You donâ€™t have to

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Don't Eat Cat

In this brilliantly entertaining send-up of zombie lit, Edgar Award winner and National Book Award finalist Jess Walter offers a twist on Americaâ€™s favorite monster: You donâ€™t have to be dead to be a zombie. Walter creates a postapocalyptic nightmare that is as sidesplitting as it is movingâ€”and all the more damning because itâ€™s so recognizable.

Set in the year 2040, amid rolling epidemics, economic collapses, ozone tumors, genetic piracy, and an Arizona border war, â€œDonâ€™t Eat Catâ€ is the story of Owen, a guy who just wants to forget the results of his recent full-body scan with a grande soy latte before going to work in Seattleâ€™s food/finance district. The world has gone straight to hell, and the most horrifying part of it is that not a damn thing has changed: You still have to go to work, you still donâ€™t have a girlfriend, and, unbelievably, the line at the Starbucks Financial still stretches on forever. Why? Because thereâ€™s a zombie working behind the counter, an addict of a club drug that causes its users to become aggressive, milk-pale, dead-eyed dimwits with an appetite for rodents and house petsâ€”cats in particular (and, in very, very rare cases, humans).

When Owen finally makes it to the head of the line, the afflicted baristaâ€™s people skills falter under pressure and he mauls the store manager. Itâ€™s the first documented zombie attack in months, and it sets the sim-tweets buzzing, ultimately ending in a vigilante killing. As for Owen, he gets more than a free latte out of the incident: Heâ€™s forced to confront the brokenness of his present life by venturing into the past. With the help of a private investigator, he heads into Seattleâ€™s Zombie Town to search for the only woman he has ever loved.

In â€œDonâ€™t Eat Cat,â€ some highs are better than a lifetime of being human.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jess Walter is the author of â€œCitizen Vince,â€ â€œThe Zero,â€ â€œThe Financial Lives of the Poets,â€ and the forthcoming â€œBeautiful Ruins,â€ which will be published by HarperCollins in June. Praised by the â€œNew York Timesâ€ as â€œa ridiculously talented writer,â€ he has won the Edgar Award for mystery writing and been named a finalist for the National Book Award. A former journalist, Walter lives with his family in Spokane, Washington. â€œDonâ€™t Eat Catâ€ is his first zombie story.

Country	USA
Author	Jess Walter
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781614520283
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
Label	Byliner Inc.
Manufacturer	Byliner Inc.
NumberOfPages	31
PublicationDate	2012-03-28
Publisher	Byliner Inc.
ReleaseDate	2012-03-28
Studio	Byliner Inc.

Don't Eat Cat

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