Gods Without MenIn the desert, you see, there is everything and nothing . . . It is God without men. —Honoré de Balzac, Une passion dans le désert, 1830 Jaz and Lisa Matharu are plunged into a surreal public hell after their son, Raj, vanishes during a family vacation in the California desert. However, the Mojave is a place of strange power, and before Raj reappears inexplicably unharmed—but not unchanged—the fate of this young family will intersect with that of many others, echoing the stories of all those who have traveled before them. Driven by the energy and cunning of Coyote, the mythic, shape-shifting trickster, Gods Without Men is full of big ideas, but centered on flesh-and-blood characters who converge at an odd, remote town in the shadow of a rock formation called the Pinnacles. Viscerally gripping and intellectually engaging, it is, above all, a heartfelt exploration of the search for pattern and meaning in a chaotic universe. This eBook edition includes a Reading Group Guide. |
Contents
Section 14 | 183 |
Section 15 | 192 |
Section 16 | 204 |
Section 17 | 233 |
Section 18 | 250 |
Section 19 | 265 |
Section 20 | 298 |
Section 21 | 308 |
Section 9 | 104 |
Section 10 | 117 |
Section 11 | 125 |
Section 12 | 152 |
Section 13 | 169 |
Section 22 | 338 |
Section 23 | 345 |
Section 24 | 367 |
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