Zombies For Jesus

by Johnny Townsend

Overview

A girl is haunted by Joseph Smith's wife. A timid gay man unleashes his inner beast through a role-playing game. A plastic surgeon accidentally discovers a new life form. God's wives fight for supremacy amongst themselves. And much more.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781609101008
Publisher:	Booklocker.com, Inc.
Publication date:	01/23/2010
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.80(d)

Editorial Reviews

Eerie, erotic, and magical, this book of loosely connected stories delves deep inside the consciousness of American Mormons. Set mostly in the South, Townsend's tales feature Mormons with a lot on their minds: environmental collapse, church politics, racism, and homophobia. But mostly they think about transgressing the church's restrictions on sexuality. "She felt guilty for sinning," Townsend (himself a Mormon) writes of one character, "but there was something exciting about it, too." Some of the stories' plots wander into the supernatural—a girl is visited by the ghost of religious leader Joseph Smith's wife, a woman's breasts come alive after her silicon implants interact with electricity—but Townsend keeps his stories grounded despite the fantastic elements, allowing him to reveal what it means to be a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

Publishers Weekly