Just as seventeen-year-old Baltimore resident Jo-Jo Dyas is about to kill himself, he meets Max, a dead girl who plays drums for a rock band, and he travels with the band as they play shows all over the Afterlife.
Sent to live in a strange, colorless world that isn't heaven or hell after being killed in an accident, 17-year-old Jo-Jo decides that he has been placed there in order to make things right in the afterlife--things he could not control when he was of the living.
There is a life after death, but only for the terminally cool. . . .
Jo-Jo Dyas doesn't believe he has any reason to live, but then he finds the surprisingly lively dead girl in the culvert and she convinces him otherwise. She and her punk band, the Fiendish Lot, come from the Afterlife, a strange, colorless place where souls sometimes pause on the journey between this world and the next. When Jo-Jo follows her there, he gets a chance to make right all the things that have gone wrong in his life . . . but only if he can figure out how before he fades away into nothing. Maybe the answer lies in Jo-Jo's late-breaking realization: Being alive is kind of cool.
Rude, raw, and blisteringly funny, Andrew Auseon's new novel is like one of those insanely catchy songs that you can't forget and won't want to. So pay attention: The afterlife you save may be your own.
