All-Day Breakfast Format: Paperback

When widowed father and substitute teacher Peter Giller leads an eleventh-grade class on a field trip to a plastics factory, he thinks the worst that could happen is that the parent volunteers wont show up (they dont), the kids will be rude (they are) or the free lunch will be terrible (it is).

A leaking pipe sprays Peter and the students with a mysterious pink goo and the worst that could happen spikes from inconvenient to catastrophic. At first, the goos strange side effects are mild: short-temperedness, sawdust-scented B.O. and an unquenchable craving for bacon. Then things get spooky: Peters fingers start falling off, his students forget how to read, no one has to peeeverand empathy for human suffering plummets, especially if anyone gets between them and their bacon.

Peter cant figure out whats happeningsurely hes not a zombie? At no time in any movie does a zombie drive a car and count on his reattached fingers the ways in which he is not a zombie, and anyway, he craves bacon, not brains. But normal people dont put their bodies back together with staple guns and thumb tacks, or contemplate biting off ears. Peters definitely not fit to be around his children, and his mother-in-law temporarily adopts them.

Peters children are all he has left, and hell do anything to be with them again. He races across the country in a stolen ambulance to face down pinstriped bureaucrats, affectionate farm-girls and monsters plucked from mythology in his search for the cureif it existsto his horrifying condition. All-Day Breakfast will satisfy all appetites for the visceral, the violent and hilarious.

Adam Lewis Schroeder is the author of three previous books: Kingdom of Monkeys (Raincoast Books, 2001),Empress of Asia (Raincoast Books, 2006) and In the Fabled East (Douglas & McIntyre, 2011), which was a finalist for the 2011 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book, Canada/Caribbean region, and chosen as one of Amazon.cas best books of the year. Schroeder currently lives in Penticton, BC, with his wife and two children. Read more about him at adamlewisschroeder.com.