This is a comic horror novel in the tradition of Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. The dead are rising in soggy Delacorte, Iowa with the frequency of mushrooms on front lawns. Herbert "Fuzzy" Dice is remarkable among them only because he has risen first. He, like many of these "Returnees," is a suicide. Only his mother, Helen, is happy to see him once more. Death has made him different, not necessarily for better or worse. She knows Fuzzy mostly through his smell. She herself is half-zombie nowadays. It's a prevailing trend in the area. There is nothing exceptional about her.