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THE WORLD IS A NARROW BRIDGE
A darkly comic road novel about a pair of millennial parents-to-be on a divinely ordained mission. Miami couple Murphy and Eva have almost decided to have a baby, when Yahweh, the Old Testament God, appears to Eva and makes an unwelcome demand: He wants her to be his prophet. He also wants her to manage his social media presence.
Murphy and Eva are a young couple with a peaceful life in Miami when Yahweh, the Old Testament God, appears to Eva making an unwelcome demand: He wants her to be his prophet. He also wants her to manage his social media presence.
Yahweh sends the two on a wild road trip across the country to deliver his message, making incomprehensible demands and mandating arcane rituals as they go. He gives them a hundred million dollars, but he asks them to use it to build a temple on top of a landfill, and forces them to endure a period of Biblical wandering in the deserts of the southwest. Along the way they are continually mistaken for another couple, a pair of North Carolina society people, and find themselves attending increasingly bizarre events in their names. At odds with their mission but helpless to disobey, Eva and Murphy struggle with the quintessential dilemma of whether now is the right time to have a child.
Equal parts hilarious and poignant, Thier’s third novel is peopled with memorable characters including a half cat/half dog named Fluffy 2, eccentric billionaires, and Satan himself. Through wry observations about the biggest things—cosmology and theology—and the smallest things—the joys and irritations of daily life—Thier questions whether it’s God or, in fact, human greed that presides over our fates, and how much free will we're really afforded. Perhaps most pressingly, this novel asks: what kind of hope can we pass on to the next generation in a frightening but beautiful world?
Aaron Thier’s first novel, THE GHOST APPLE (a semifinalist for the 2015 Thurber Prize for American Humor) was published in 2014, with MR. ETERNITY (“…sharp, inventive and compassionate…”—San Francisco Chronicle) following in 2015. A regular contributor to The Nation and Lucky Peach and a graduate of Yale University and the MFA program at The University of Florida, Thier received an NEA Fellowship in Creative Writing this year.
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Published 2018-07-03 by Bloomsbury |