All the Names They Used for God: Stories

All the Names They Used for God: Stories

â€œOne of the best collections I've ever read. Every single story is a standout.â€Ââ€”Roxane Gay

â€œFuses science, myth, and imagination into a dark and gorgeous series of questions about our current predicaments.â€Ââ€”Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See

â€œTruly original . . . delightfully unexpected.â€â€”The New York Times Book Review

Spanning centuries, continents, and a diverse set of characters, these alluringly strange stories are united by each characterâ€™s struggle with fate. In a secret, subterranean world beneath the prairie of the Old West, a homesteader risks her life in search of a safe haven. A workman in Andrew Carnegieâ€™s steel mills is turned into a medical oddity by the brutal power of the furnacesâ€”and is eventually revitalized by his condition.Â A young woman created through genetic manipulation is destroyed by the same force that gave her life.

Anjali Sachdeva demonstrates a preternatural ability to laser in on our fears, our hopes, and our longings in order to point out intrinsic truths about society and humanity. â€œKiller of Kingsâ€ starts with John Milton writing Paradise Lost and questions the very nature of powerâ€”and the ability to see any hero as a tyrant with just a change in perspective. The title story presents a stirring imagining of the aftermath of the kidnapping of Nigerian schoolgirls by Boko Haram that leaves us pondering what is lost when we survive the unsurvivable.Â And in â€œPleiades,â€ genetically modified septuplets are struck by a mysterious illness that tests their parentsâ€™ unwavering belief in the power of science.

Like many of us, the characters in this collection are in pursuit of the sublime, and find themselves looking not just to divinity but to science, nature, psychology, and industry, forgetting that their new, logical deities are no more trustworthy than the tempestuous gods of the past. Along the way, they walk the knife-edge between wonder and terror, salvation and destruction. All the Names They Used for God is an entrancing work of speculative fiction that heralds Anjali Sachdeva as an invigorating, incomparable new voice.

â€œEvery once in a while you read a book with such power, craft, and originality that you know instantly that a new and important voice has arrived on the scene. This is that book.â€â€”Karen Joy Fowler, author ofÂ The Jane Austen Book Club
Country USA
Manufacturer The Dial Press
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2018-02-20
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780399593000

Country	USA
Manufacturer	The Dial Press
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2018-02-20
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780399593000

All the Names They Used for God: Stories

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