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From a mind-blowing new talent, an audacious novel that imagines the world after God takes human form and diesWhen God descends to Earth as a Dinka woman from Sudan and subsequently dies in the Darfur desert, the result is a world both bizarrely new yet eerily familiar. In Ron Curries provocative, wise, and emotionally resonant novel we meet God himself the Dinka woman whose mortality He must suffer when He inhabits her body people all over the world coping with the devastating news of Gods demise a group of young men who, fearing the end of the world, take fate into their own hands mental patients who insist that a god still exists armies taking up the eternal war between fate and free will and parents who, in the absence of a deity and the “lack of anything to do on Sundays,” worship their children. On the surface, this is a world utterly transformed—yet certain things remain unchanged: protective parents clash with willful, idealistic teenagers idols are exalted small-town rumor mills run unabated and children often dont realize how to forgive their parents until its too late.In God Is Dead, Currie brings together a prescient satirical gift worthy of Jonathan Swift, the raw appeal of Chuck Palahniuks blackest comedy, and the thought-provoking ethical questions of Kurt Vonnegut, all with a light touch, empathy, and wisdom that make for an exhilarating reading experience. Offbeat yet accessible, God Is Dead is an exciting debut from a fresh new voice in contemporary fiction.