From the coauthor of the New York Times bestselling The Shape of Water comes the âutterly rivetingâ (Entertainment Weekly) tale of a murdered teen who is resurrected to walk the earth for more than a century.
May 7, 1896.
Dusk. A swaggering seventeen-year-old gangster named Zebulon Finch is gunned down by the shores of Lake Michigan. But after mere minutes in the void, he is mysteriously resurrected.
His second life will be nothing like his first.
Zebulonâs new existence begins as a sideshow attraction in a traveling medicine show. From there he will be poked and prodded by a scientist obsessed with mastering the secrets of death. He will fight in the trenches of World War I. He will run from his nightmaresâand from povertyâin Depression-era New York City. And he will become the companion of the most beautiful woman in Hollywood.
Love, hate, hope, and horrorâZebulon finds them. But will he ever find redemption?
âFearlessly weaving gore, love, philosophy, and social justice issues into one sharp wholeâ (BCCB), The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch, Volume One: At the Edge of Empire is the epic saga of what it means to be human in a world so often lacking in humanity.