The Making of Zombie Wars by Aleksandar Hemon

The Making of Zombie Wars by Aleksandar Hemon

"Aleksandar Hemon is on fire." --Vanity Fair

"His writing style is as vital and rewarding as ever. . . . The kind of writing that pulls you in and holds you there." --San Francisco Chronicle

Joshua Levin has a reasonably comfortable Chicago apartment, a mildly dysfunctional family sprinkled throughout the suburbs, a steady job teaching ESL, a devoted girlfriend who lives down the block, and a laptop full of screenplay ideas--one of which he thinks, might turn out to be good: Zombie Wars.

But all it takes is a few unexpected events--his already unhinged army vet of a landlord experiencing something of a psychotic break, a moment of weakness (or two) with his sultry Bosnian student--for Joshua's life to descend into chaos. As the stakes quickly move from absurd to life-and-death matters, The Making of Zombie Wars takes on real consequence.

Aleksandar Hemon is the author of The Lazarus Project, which was a National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award nominee in 2008, as well as three collections of short stories: The Question of Bruno, Nowhere Man, which was also a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, and Love and Obstacles. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2003, as well as a MacArthur Foundation genius grant. He is based in Chicago.