Act of God
A Novel
It’s the summer of 2015, Brooklyn, and the city is sweltering from another record-breaking heat wave, this one accompanied by biblical rains. Edith, a recently retired legal librarian, and her identical twin sister, Kat, have discovered something ominous in their hall closet: it’s shaped like a mushroom, it’s phosphorescent, and it’s rapidly consuming their wall. But that’s only the beginning …
Part suspense, part screwball comedy, Jill Ciment’s brilliant novel looks at what happens when our lives—so seemingly set and ordered—break down in the wake of calamity.
JILL CIMENT, the author, most recently, of the novel The Body in Question (a New York Times Notable Book), has been the recipient of numerous honors, among them a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, two New York Foundation for the Arts fellowships, the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, and a Guggenheim fellowship. Ciment, a professor emeritus at the University of Florida, was born in Montreal, Canada; she now lives in Gainesville and New York City.
Consent
Jill Ciment
The Body in Question
Jill Ciment
Act of God
Jill Ciment
Heroic Measures
Jill Ciment
The Tattoo Artist
Jill Ciment
Half a Life
Jill Ciment
The Orchard
Peter Heller
Bad Behavior
Mary Gaitskill
The Cliffs: Reese's Book Club
J. Courtney Sullivan
Blue Ruin
Hari Kunzru
Burn
Peter Heller
In the Orchard
Eliza Minot
The Last Ranger
Peter Heller
Marrying the Ketchups
Jennifer Close
You Have a Friend in 10A
Maggie Shipstead
Harrow
Joy Williams
Phase Six
Jim Shepard
The Guide
Peter Heller
A Bright Ray of Darkness
Ethan Hawke
The Sun Collective
Charles Baxter