Summer is off to a bad start and getting worse. Brooklyn Thomas is pretty sure she's mostly dead. She can't feel her heart beat and she's disappearing: her reflection keeps vanishing from mirrors. No one else seems to notice. Not her coworkers at the artisanal doughnut shop she works at after failin
God Isn't Here Today
β Scribed by Francine Cunningham
- Book ID
- 110675455
- Publisher
- Invisible Publishing
- Year
- 2022
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 541 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781988784946
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
For fans of Chuck Palahniuk, Joyce Carol Oates, and Karen Russell, the stories in Francine Cunningham's debut collection God Isn't Here Today
ricochet between form and genre, taking readers on a dark, irreverent,
yet poignant journey led by a unique and powerful new voice.
Driven by desperation into moments of transformation, Cunningham's
characters are presented with moments of choiceβsome for the better and
some for the worse. A young man goes to God's office downtown for
advice; a woman discovers she is the last human on Earth; an ice cream
vendor is driven insane by his truck's song; an ageing stripper uses
undergarments to enact her escape plan; an incubus tires of his
professional grind; and a young woman inherits a power that has survived
genocide, but comes with a burden of its own.
Even as they flirt with the fantastic, Cunningham's stories unfold
with the innate elegance of a spring fern, reminding us of the inherent
dualities in human natureβand that redemption can arise where we least
expect it.
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