Only Begotten Daughter

Name: Only Begotten Daughter
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: James Morrow
ISBN: 9781974988679

Author: James Morrow

Narrator: Christine Helen Lakin

Unabridged: 13 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media

Published: 09/30/2019

Categories: Fiction, Satire

Synopsis

Rejoice! A new messiah has come, and her name is Julie. Born to Murray Katz, the solitary (and celibate) keeper of an abandoned lighthouse on the Jersey shore, our protagonist arrives on Earth boasting supernatural abilities evocative of her divine half-brother, Jesus. As a child, she revels in her talent for walking on water, resurrecting dead crabs, and treating fireflies as luminous alphabet blocks. But after she reaches adolescence, her life becomes as challenging and ambiguous as any mortals. Not only is Julie Katz obliged to deal with a silver-tongued devil and self-righteous neo-Christian zealots, she must also figure out what sort of mission her motherthe female Supreme Beinghas in mind for her. At once outrageous and affirming, this Nebula Award finalist is a magnificent work of contemporary satire that holds a mirror up to human nature, astutely reflecting our species failings, foibles, and often misguided affections.

About James Morrow

James Morrow is the author of the World Fantasy Award-winning novel Towing Jehovah, the Nebula Award-winning novella Shambling Towards Hiroshima, and the New York Times Notable Book Blameless in Abaddon. His novels include The Last Witchfinder, hailed by the Washington Post as "literary magic," and The Philosopher's Apprentice, which received rave reviews from multiple outlets, including the New York Times and Entertainment Weekly.

Morrow is a master of the satiric and the surreal who has enjoyed comparison with Twain, Vonnegut, and Updike. He lives in State College, Pennsylvania.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bradley on February 22, 2020

I hesitate in calling this a satire because it's a highly-charged emotional bomb of a great story IN ADDITION to being some of the cleverest novels of scattershot inversions, sly winks, and outrageously funny situations. You know, as funny as meeting Jesus in Hell is going to be, serving heroin to th......more

Goodreads review by Laura on December 29, 2008

I received this book as a gift from my boyfriend's parents, who read it for a literary program through their Unitarian Universalist Church. The premise of the novel: What if a modern Messiah was born? What if a celibate man brought forth a daughter of God through a combination of miracle and modern......more

Goodreads review by Nathan on November 15, 2013

Act 1- In which we meet a bunch of personality quirks masquerading as characters. And some basic background is laid down. A strange loner in a lighthouse learns one of his sperm bank donations has self-fertilized, a new immaculate conception, this time in a test tube. Meet Julie Katz, daughter of God......more

Goodreads review by Sarah on October 14, 2013

I loved this book. LOVED. IT. Then again, I’m one of those people who enjoys this sort of dark humor and a good poke at all things sacred. I can see how a vast swath of the population would find this book absolutely offensive, so be warned about that. Julie’s coming-of-age as the daughter of God is......more

Goodreads review by Jody on September 26, 2008

This was such a clever book. It raises the idea of what if there were a "daughter of God". This book is a very sarcastic fable/story that delves into what would happen if God had a daughter in modern times. I read this in college and had the chance to actually meet the author. The only question he w......more