God is Dead, Ron Currie Jr.
God is Dead, Ron Currie Jr.
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God is Dead

Author: Ron Currie Jr.

Narrator: Gabriel Baron

Unabridged: 5 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/05/2025

Categories: Fiction, Short Stories

Synopsis

From a mind-blowing new talent, an audacious novel that imagines the world after God descends to Earth as a Dinka woman from the Sudan and subsequently dies in the Darfur desert. The result is a world both bizarrely new yet eerily familiar. In Currie’s provocative, wise, and emotionally resonant novel we meet God himself; the Dinka woman whose mortality He must suffer when He inhabits her body; people all over the world coping with the devastating news of God’s demise; a group of young men who, fearing the end of the world, take fate into their own hands; mental patients who insist that a god still exists; armies taking up the eternal war between fate and free will; and parents who, in the absence of a deity and the “lack of anything to do on Sundays,” worship their children. On the surface, this world utterly transformed-yet certain things remain unchanged: protective parents clash with willful, idealistic teenagers; idols are exalted; small town rumor mills run unabated; and children often don’t realize how to forgive their parents until it’s too late. In God Is Dead, Currie brings together a prescient satirical gift worthy of Jonathan Swift, the raw appeal of Chuck Palahniuk’s blackest comedy, and the thought-provoking ethical questions of Kurt Vonnegut, all with a light touch, empathy, and wisdom that make for an exhilarating reading experience. Off beat yet accessible, God Is Dead is an exciting debut from a fresh new voice in contemporary fiction.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Paul on June 01, 2010

Well this is a tough review to write because this is Ron Currie's first book and I wish him well. And I really wanted to like this one a lot - you know when you get good vibes from a book as soon as you hear about it. And it isn't bad. But I just didn't really get where Ron Currie was coming from. T......more

Goodreads review by Michael on August 23, 2007

Whaapow! Jealous and inspired. The book starts out phenomenally and then just gets better and better. It’s like watching someone tiptoe out onto a frozen pond, then slowly gain confidence, and soon he’s jumping up and down, trying as hard as he can to smash his safety, inviting his friends out there......more

Goodreads review by Miss Michael on July 07, 2008

First, you have to assume that God exists. Then, you have to assume that it would be possible for him to die. I can do these things. Willing suspension of disbelief and all that. However, that didn't stop the book from reading a little like a writing exercise, more for the benefit of the author than......more

Goodreads review by Elizabeth on August 15, 2018

I absolutely love this book. The concept is simple but the execution is DEEPLY complex. A story that begins with God dying in human form could play out in a pretty easy, cliche way but Ron Currie Jr. really digs deep into how the world would really change, bureaucratically, theologically, sociologic......more

Goodreads review by Dr X on October 05, 2008

I bought this book on a City Lights staff recommendation. I thought it would be one of those "funny" books without much of substance, and I read it to read something enjoyable after finishing a torturous novel. Unlike that book of similar length, this one flew by, and in fact, I didn't want it to en......more

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