In any case, I would hate to be the bookseller trying to shelve this in the store.
Show More give you “What if…” prompts and tell you to be imaginative? Or how you might keep a dream journal that contains the craziest story ideas and premises but is never actually supposed to see the light of day? Well, this book…) It is soundly a genre book (and as a lover of blowing up genre conventions, I don’t mean that disparagingly…) but also one of those slippery, wily books that just won’t sit still and be told to adhere to genre.
The obsidian knife she had used to murder Detective Miner lay nestled in the small of her back, sharp and secret.” Recommended (though obviously there are plenty of awful things that happen). Her breath puffed white in the predawn air. Oak leaves, reddish-orange and delightfully crunchy, crackled underfoot as she walked. Most of the librarians, Carolyn included, had come to think of this road as the Path of Tacos, so-called in order of a Mexican joint they snuck out to sometimes…. I suspect that the first paragraph lets you know whether this is a book for you: “Carolyn, blood-drenched and barefoot, walked alone down the two-lane stretch of blacktop that the Americans called Highway 78. Carolyn, the least poorly socialized of them, goes out into the normal world (among “Americans,” as they call everyone outside) to try to figure out what happened and secure assistance. Show More them into learning vast amounts of mystical things, from healing to languages to the art of war but with his disappearance, worse things are stirring. What she doesn't realize is that her victory may come at a n unacceptable price-because in becoming God, she's forgotten a great deal about being human. As Carolyn gathers the tools she needs for battle to come, fierce competitors for this prize align against her. And if God is truly dead, the only thing that matters is who will inherit his library-and with it, power over all creation. Sometimes, they've wondered if their cruel tutor might secretly be God. They've studied the books in his library and learned some of the secrets behind his equally ancient power. Instead, she and her adopted siblings have been raised according to Father's ancient Pelapi customs. In the years since Father took her in, Carolyn hasn't gotten out much. And when he was disobeyed, the consequences were terrible. That was a long time ago, of course-before that time she calls "adoption day," when she and a dozen other children found themselves being raised by a man they learned to call father. After all, she was a normal American herself, once. She likes guacamole and cigarettes and steak. Carolyn's not so different from the other human beings around her. Neil Gaiman meets Joe Hill in this astonishingly original, terrifying, and darkly funny contemporary fantasy.
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