2018 PEN America Literary Award WinnerβLos Angeles Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, *Black Jesus and Other Superheroes* chronicles ordinary people achieving vivid extrasensory perception while under extreme pain. The stories tumble into a universe of the jaded and the hopeful
Mecha-Jesus and Other Stories
β Scribed by Derwin Mak
- Book ID
- 112871415
- Publisher
- Brain Lag
- Year
- 2024
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 1 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781998795185
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
From distant stars to a Cocoa Beach Hooters, Derwin Mak's short fiction takes readers through tales of mystery, wonder, and horror. Ethnic traditions meld with fantastic visions in these twelve stories about memory fabric, eldritch gods during the Salem witch trials, and of course, Mecha-Jesus, Japan's very own android kami.
Foreword by Liana Kerzner, award-winning comedy writer and co-editor of Wrestling With Gods: Tesseracts Eighteen
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