Let There Be Light
The Real Story of Her Creation
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • An “irreverent yet profound” (Publishers Weekly) retelling of the Book of Genesis, starring a female God, from the acclaimed New Yorker cartoonist and author of Passing for Human
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker
In this ambitious and transcendent graphic novel, Liana Finck turns her keen eye to none other than the Old Testament, reimagining the story of Genesis with God as a woman, Abraham as a resident of New York City, and Rebekah as a robot, among many other delightful twists. In Finck's retelling, the millennia-old stories of Adam and Eve, Abraham and Isaac, and Jacob and Esau haunt the pages like familiar…
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April 12, 2022Liana Finck is a cartoonist, illustrator and regular contributor to the New Yorker where she also authors the “Dear Pepper” advice-from-a-dog column. As the author of eight books, her work also frequently appears in The New York Times, The Atlantic, New York Magazine and more. She is the recipient of Fulbright, Guggenheim and New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships. She teaches creative writing at Barnard College. www.lianafinck.com
Questions Without Answers
Sarah Manguso; Illustrated by Liana Finck
Mixed Feelings
Liana Finck; Illustrated by Liana Finck
How to Baby
Liana Finck
You Broke It!
Liana Finck; Illustrated by Liana Finck
Let There Be Light
Liana Finck
Excuse Me
Liana Finck
Passing for Human
Liana Finck
Hope
Pope Francis with Carlo Musso; translated by Richard Dixon
Reading Genesis
Marilynne Robinson
Sacred Nature
Karen Armstrong
Kiss the Red Stairs
Marsha Lederman
I Felt the End Before It Came
Daniel Allen Cox
Halal Sex
Sheima Benembarek; Foreword by Mona Eltahawy
Who By Fire
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Don't Call It a Cult
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The Lost Art of Scripture
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Talking to Strangers
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The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories
P. D. James With a foreword by Val McDermid
God Is in the Crowd
Tal Keinan
Bibi
Anshel Pfeffer
The Book of Joy
His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu with Douglas Abrams
Hatred
Michael Coren
Into the Uncut Grass
Trevor Noah
The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain
Kazuo Ishiguro
Feeding Ghosts
Tessa Hulls
I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together
Maurice Vellekoop
Original Sisters
Anita Kunz Foreword by Roxane Gay
Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 2
Yuval Noah Harari; Adapted by David Vandermeulen; Illustrated by Daniel Casanave
Work for a Million (Graphic Novel)
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Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 1
Yuval Noah Harari
Talking to Strangers
Marianne Boucher
The Handmaid's Tale (Graphic Novel)
Margaret Atwood; illustrated by Renee Nault
Home After Dark
David Small
White as Milk, Red as Blood
Franz Xaver von Schoenwerth Willow Dawson, illustrator, and Shelley Tanaka, translator
The One Hundred Nights of Hero
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