Ten-year-old Don Skelton's school life takes an unexpected turn—he literally drowns in his bowl of oxtail soup. Suddenly, he awakens in the bizarre underworld city of Broilerdoom, where pianos fall from the sky, monsters threaten to eat him, crows can talk, and a full-scale rebellion brews just beneath the surface.
 
With the guidance (and occasional misdirection) of a crow named Castanet, Don must navigate this chaotic afterlife—and choose whether to be its victim or its unlikely hero