Angel wakes up in a hospital with a vague memory of a car accident in her head, but there are no marks on her body. The nurse tells her that she ODed, which isn't much of a surprise to her since she is a pillhead and high school dropout, who has a record and couldn't hold down a job to save her life. The police come by to talk to her about why she was found naked on the side of the road, not far from someone who had been decapitated, but she doesn't remember all that much from that night. She expects to be sent to drug rehab, but finds herself being released from the hospital. Someone left her some clothing, some bottles of iced latte, and a note telling her to drink one bottle every other day and that she had a job waiting for her the next day at the morgue as a driver.
The first thing she notices is that drugs do not have any effect on her. The next day, she is told by her coworkers that even though the morgue needed a driver that there is a hiring freeze. Everyone assumes that she has some kind of political friend who pulled strings. She then notices that the iced lattes make her feel better and keep her from smelling of death. It's becoming clear that something happened that night that has made her different, though she cannot tell how or why. She gets more weird notes from her benefactor. One of them tells her when she's craving something, to eat it. She craves the brains inside the autopsied bodies, and after she runs out of lattes, she is overcome with the need for brains, and therefore, she eats.
She is still living with her alcoholic and physically abusive father and has an on-again-off-again relationship with a guy named Randy. A sheriff's deputy, Marcus, whom she is immediately attracted to, befriends her along with others, even though they know her past and don't hold it against her. Angel learns a lot at the morgue from the ME and from Nick, the annoying snob who trains her. She actually enjoys her new job more than the lousy minimum wage ones she had. While on the job, she meets another zombie who works at a funeral home and has a side business selling brains. He's the one who tells her she is a zombie, something she feared she was but could not accept. He shows her the ropes a little bit more than the benefactor has.
As more headless and brainless bodies turn up, Angel sees a connection and wonders if she did it or if there is a rogue zombie out there killing to get a free meal. This novel, first in a series set in southern Louisiana, is a quirky mystery wrapped in a zombie puzzle. Angel is an interesting character who changes her life around only when she becomes a zombie. I really loved this book and can’t wait to get my hands on the next in the series.
Quotes
I knew that nurses had the power to make your life suck more than it already did.
Diana Rowland (My Life As a White Trash Zombie p 2)
Maybe get my hair cut so I had bangs that covered my forehead? I made a face. Bangs. Ugh. I'd rather have parts falling off.
Diana Rowland (My Life As a White Trash Zombie, p. 101)
Well that sucks the shit out of a dead rat's ass.
Diana Rowland (My Life As a White Trash Zombie, p. 218)
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