God and Sex, Jon Raymond
God and Sex, Jon Raymond
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God and Sex

Author: Jon Raymond

Narrator: Kirby Heyborne

Unabridged: 8 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/05/2025


Synopsis

From the award-winning author of Denial comes a novel about a New Age writer whose life is irrevocably changed when a devastating climate disaster forces him to confront his belief in the existence of God.

What if God spoke to you? Would you hear Him? Would you obey His command?

Arthur Zinn, an author of high-end spiritual texts, has fallen in love with a librarian married to a newfound close friend. When an environmental disaster threatens her life, Arthur’s frantic prayers lead to a mystifying event that challenges his assumptions about the nature of the universe and the divine. In God and Sex, Oregon Book Award winner and acclaimed screenwriter Jon Raymond masterfully entwines themes of ecology, mortality, art, faith, and the tangled complexities of carnal love.

About Jon Raymond

Jon Raymond is the author of five works of fiction, including the Oregon Book Award–winning story collection Livability and the Oregon Book Award–nominated novel Denial. As a screenwriter, he has collaborated on numerous films with the director Kelly Reichardt, including Old JoyWendy and Lucy, and First Cow. He also received an Emmy Award nomination for his screenwriting on the HBO miniseries Mildred Pierce directed by Todd Haynes and starring Kate Winslet. He was the editor of Plazm Magazine, associate and contributing editor at Tin House magazine, and a member of the Board of Directors at Literary Arts. His writing has appeared in ZoetropePlayboyTin HouseThe Village VoiceArtforumBookforum, and many other places. He lives in Portland, Oregon.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ron on August 12, 2025

When politicians talk about divine intervention, God help us. Only a Being of infinite forbearance could endure the implications of negligence lodged against Him. This month, as Texas parents were still looking for the bodies of their children, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem said, “I’m ex......more

Goodreads review by Ruben on August 22, 2025

I picked this up because of its title of course... And actually had a great time with it. We have a sympathetic writer who moves back to his mom's place in Oregon after his latest flop caused him a depression. Once there he decides to write a book about trees and gets in touch with the kindest biolo......more

Goodreads review by Peter on August 09, 2025

"His maturity was galling. He was so capacious, so deep. Was he telling me the truth? I wondered. I wasn't sure. This might be yet another punishment he'd devised. He was roasting me in the fire of his kindness, branding me with his red-hot poker of forgiveness."......more

Goodreads review by John on August 22, 2025

Contains much promise. Reminded me in passing of another novel about a less-than-fervent reaction by an adulterer to possible divine intervention, set down the same Pacific Coast back in the 1980s, Brian Moore's Cold Heaven. I thought Jon Raymond's screenplays for Mildred Pierce and Meek's Crossing......more

Goodreads review by Chris on August 17, 2025

Book of the year.......more