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Age range 14 and up

"It was strange Wiltcalling me when he'd died the week before. Maybe a lot of other people get called from thespirit world or whatever, but it was a first for me and so I didn't pick up until the fifth or sixth ring."

When Curtis Brooks gets a phone call from his older brother Wilt the week after his funeral, he's sure his brotheris reaching out from beyond the grave to find evidence that will lead to his murder's arrest. But Wilt claims hewasn't murdered; his calling is standard protocol for newly deceased at the Aftermarta kind of inescapable,everexpandingWalmart filled with obsolete technology and discontinued products.Curtis embarks on a dangerous plan to find the killer, which soon has him scheming against a billionaire andfumbling towards love with his brother's exgirlfriendSuzy, all while struggling with typical high school drama andhis single mom's questionable choices.Why does Wilt help Curtis win over Suzy, even as he organizes a rebellion at the Aftermart Who wanted himdead Curtis risks his life to answer these questions, in the process forging a bond with his brother unlike anythey ever had.

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A New Yorker by birth, Eric Laster lives in Los Angeles, where he pens fiction and provides strategic writing services to select clients. After a successful stint as a ghostwriter, Eric re-launched under his own name with the middle-grade novel Welfy Q. Deederhoth: Meat Purveyor, World Savior. Whenever he s not scribing, he records punk rock and presses it to vinyl.
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