"Currie’s strength rests in his ability to focus humanity’s conundrums on the smallest physical particles. The truth he presents is that the world has become absurd; he is merely delivering a steady-cam view."

--LOS ANGELES TIMES

"In his cutting-edge debut book of fiction Ron Currie, Jr., triggers...real admiration. Provocative."

--Deidre Donahue, USA TODAY

In an electrifying debut that effortlessly combines outlandish humor with big questions about mortality, ethics, and human weakness, Ron Currie, Jr., holds a fun-house mirror to our present-day world. God has inhabited the mortal body of a young woman in the Sudan. When she is killed, he dies along with her. Faced with the hard proof that there is no supreme being in charge, the world is irrevocably transformed. High school buddies forge a suicide pact; dogs speak Aramaic and walk on water; and parents, for the "lack of anything to do on Sundays," worship their own children. Skewed though it may be, this godless reality remains oddly recognizable.

God Is Dead

The Bridge

Indian Summer

False Idols

Grace

Interview with the Last Remaining Member of the Feral Dog Pack Which Fed on God’s Corpse

The Helmet of Salvation and the Sword of the Spirit

My Brother the Murderer

Retreat

Acknowledgments