

Only Begotten Daughter
Author: James Morrow
Narrator: Christine Helen Lakin
Unabridged: 13 hr 23 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Dreamscape Media
Published: 09/30/2019
Author: James Morrow
Narrator: Christine Helen Lakin
Unabridged: 13 hr 23 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Dreamscape Media
Published: 09/30/2019
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.
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
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
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
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
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