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Son in Bag
From your favorite "tell-it-like-it-is" storyteller Salustiano Berrios, whose novels have been praised for their lack of censorship, comes a thrilling new novel about the love a father has for his deceased son, in a world where the dead stay dead...until they don't.
Pedro Rivera's six-year-old son, Carlos, has passed away, in a world where the dead, for inexplicable reasons, are returning to life with a gluttonous hunger for human flesh. Not the only one weighed down with a heavy emotional toll, the entire world over is starting to come loose at the hinges, the wheels falling off. Desperate to control this scourge, the answer is fire. Bullets and other weapons work temporarily, but nothing works as well as fire. In fact, it soon becomes the law of all every zombie, including individuals who recently passed away but haven't returned, must be burned, torched beyond all recognition. Those found burying bodies instead of burning them are treated as enemies. This is war, after all.
But Pedro doesn't want to burn Carlos. Can't stand the thought of it. His wife, Carlos' mother, Sienna, was cremated two years before, her ashes scattered in her garden in their summer cottage in Maine. Those were her wishes, but Pedro has his own wishes for Carlos. Knowing full well the repercussions, Pedro wants to bury his child in Sienna's garden. Even in death, every boy needs his mother.
However, the journey from Upstate New York to Maine will prove anything but easy. And least of all because someone has discovered the half-baked grave dug in Pedro's backyard. Someone not willing to let Pedro get away with something he himself had to do. Someone determined to force Pedro to feel the pain and anguish of burning a loved one, no matter the cost.
A tribute to the love a father has for his son, Son in Bag will grab you up by your neck and won't let you gasp until the very last page.
Pedro Rivera's six-year-old son, Carlos, has passed away, in a world where the dead, for inexplicable reasons, are returning to life with a gluttonous hunger for human flesh. Not the only one weighed down with a heavy emotional toll, the entire world over is starting to come loose at the hinges, the wheels falling off. Desperate to control this scourge, the answer is fire. Bullets and other weapons work temporarily, but nothing works as well as fire. In fact, it soon becomes the law of all every zombie, including individuals who recently passed away but haven't returned, must be burned, torched beyond all recognition. Those found burying bodies instead of burning them are treated as enemies. This is war, after all.
But Pedro doesn't want to burn Carlos. Can't stand the thought of it. His wife, Carlos' mother, Sienna, was cremated two years before, her ashes scattered in her garden in their summer cottage in Maine. Those were her wishes, but Pedro has his own wishes for Carlos. Knowing full well the repercussions, Pedro wants to bury his child in Sienna's garden. Even in death, every boy needs his mother.
However, the journey from Upstate New York to Maine will prove anything but easy. And least of all because someone has discovered the half-baked grave dug in Pedro's backyard. Someone not willing to let Pedro get away with something he himself had to do. Someone determined to force Pedro to feel the pain and anguish of burning a loved one, no matter the cost.
A tribute to the love a father has for his son, Son in Bag will grab you up by your neck and won't let you gasp until the very last page.
317 pages, Paperback
Published August 20, 2022
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