{"product_id":"gods-book-matthew-gallaway-9780989961554","title":"#gods","description":"Fiction. A radical new myth about sex, faith, and those of us who will never die\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA young boy wanders into the woods of Harlem and witnesses the abduction of his sister by a glowing creature. Forty years later, now working as a New York City homicide detective, Gus is assigned to a case in which he unexpectedly succumbs to a vision that Helen is still alive. To find her, he embarks on an unorthodox investigation that leads to an ancient civilization of gods and the people determined to bring them back. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this colossal new novel from the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Metropolis Case\u003c\/em\u003e ('breathes new life into the relationship between art and life' --New York Times), the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice collides with a new religion founded by three corporate office workers, creating something beautiful, illogical, and overwhelming. Part sex manifesto, part religious text, part Manhattan noir--with a dose of deadly serious, internet-inspired satire--#GODS is a sprawling inquest into the nature of faith and resistance in the modern world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e#GODS is a mystery, an excavation of myths, an index of modern life, a gay coming-of-age story, an office satire, a lyrical fever dream, a conspiracy. One of the most ambitious novels in recent memory--and a wild, possibly transformative addition to the canon of gay literature-it contains multitudes, and seethes with brilliance. --Mark Doten, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Infernal\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMatthew Gallaway's #GODS is a novel so brilliant, so funny, so full of strange and marvelous things, I couldn't stop writing OMG WTF I Yoga Bitch \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMatthew Gallaway's storytelling manages to be both dreamy and serious; lean and luxurious. His words carry an incantatory power of mythic storytelling where beauty and savagery wrap around each other like bright threads in a gorgeous tapestry.--Natasha Vargas-Cooper, author of \u003cem\u003eMad Men Unbuttoned: A Romp Through 1960s America\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf the ancient gods were just like us, only more so, then the same could be said for this strange, wonderful book, in which the mundane sorrows and small triumphs of very ordinary lives glow ever so slightly around the edges, sometimes quite literally. At once an oddly romantic send-up of dead-end office culture and an offbeat supernatural procedural, #GODS is terrifically weird, melancholy, sexy, and charming.--Jacob Bacharach, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Doorposts of Your House and on Your Gates and The Bend of the World\u003c\/em\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50376404631825,"sku":"CIN0989961559G","price":4.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0989961559.jpg?v=1751236024","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/gods-book-matthew-gallaway-9780989961554","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}