{"product_id":"2940169164275","title":"God is Dead","description":"From a mind-blowing new talent, an audacious novel that imagines the world after God descends to Earth as a Dinka woman from the Sudan and subsequently dies in the Darfur desert.  The result is a world both bizarrely new yet eerily familiar.  In Currie¿s 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 God¿s 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 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 don¿t realize how to forgive their parents until it¿s too late.  In God Is Dead, Currie brings together a prescient satirical gift worthy of Jonathan Swift, the raw appeal of Chuck Palahniuk¿s 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.  Off beat yet accessible, God Is Dead is an exciting debut from a fresh new voice in contemporary fiction.","brand":"Listen \u0026 Live Audio, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47179854282992,"sku":"2940169164275","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169164275_p0.jpg?v=1763763783","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169164275","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}