If God took human form and died, what would happen to the world and its inhabitants? Ron Currie starts from this premise to create one of the crudest and most illuminating books in American fiction in recent years. God incarnates himself in the body of a young woman from Sudan: when she is killed, he dies with her. The news of God's death soon begins to travel around the planet and to provoke the most disparate reactions. Some people begin to worship children and some dogs, some do much stranger or more ferocious things. Faced with the evidence that there is no longer a superior authority to regulate conflicts and assume responsibility and guilt, humanity is irremediably transformed, while remaining strangely familiar. Combining black humor and great existential questions, Currie places the reader in front of a distorting mirror, which paradoxically ends up returning a reality very similar to the absurd times we are living in.
