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LET THERE BE LIGHT
The Real Story of Her Creation
A wonderful graphic novel retelling of the Book of Genesis, starring a female God, from the acclaimed New Yorker cartoonist and author of PASSING FOR HUMAN.
In this ambitious and transcendent graphic novel, Liana Finck turns her keen eye to none other than the Old Testament, reimagining the story of Genesis with a God as a woman, Abraham as a resident of New York City, and Rebekah as a robot, among many other delightful twists. In Finck's retelling, the millennia-old stories of Adam and Eve, Abraham and Isaac, and Jacob and Esau haunt the pages like familiar but partially forgotten nursery rhymes--transmuted by time but still deeply resonant. With her trademark insightfulness, wry humor, and supple, moving visual style, Finck accentuates the latent sweetness and timeless wisdom of the original text, infusing it with wit and whimsy while retaining every ounce of its spiritual heft.
LET THERE BE LIGHT is a testament to the fact that old stories can live forever, whether as ancient scripture or as a series of profound and enchanting cartoons. The Book of Genesis is about some of the most fundamental questions that we can ask, pertinent across the millennia: What does it mean to be human? What is the purpose of our lives? How do we treat one another? The stories that attempt to answer these questions are an immediate link with the people who first told them. Unable to fathom the holiness and preciousness of that notion, or put it into words, Finck set out to depict it. The result is a true story of creation, rendered by one of our most innovative creators.
Liana Finck is a regular contributor to The New Yorker, The Awl, and Catapult. She is a recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, and a Six Points Fellowship for Emerging Jewish Artists. She has had artist residencies with MacDowell, Yaddo, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Center, and Tablet Magazine. Her first book, the graphic novel A BINTEL BRIEF, was published in 2014 by Ecco/HarperCollins. She is also the author of the graphic memoir PASSING FOR HUMAN (2018) and one previous collection of cartoons, EXCUSE ME (September 2019). Liana Finck has 566,000 followers on Instagram and counting, including many prominent artists, actors, and writers.
LET THERE BE LIGHT is a testament to the fact that old stories can live forever, whether as ancient scripture or as a series of profound and enchanting cartoons. The Book of Genesis is about some of the most fundamental questions that we can ask, pertinent across the millennia: What does it mean to be human? What is the purpose of our lives? How do we treat one another? The stories that attempt to answer these questions are an immediate link with the people who first told them. Unable to fathom the holiness and preciousness of that notion, or put it into words, Finck set out to depict it. The result is a true story of creation, rendered by one of our most innovative creators.
Liana Finck is a regular contributor to The New Yorker, The Awl, and Catapult. She is a recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, and a Six Points Fellowship for Emerging Jewish Artists. She has had artist residencies with MacDowell, Yaddo, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Center, and Tablet Magazine. Her first book, the graphic novel A BINTEL BRIEF, was published in 2014 by Ecco/HarperCollins. She is also the author of the graphic memoir PASSING FOR HUMAN (2018) and one previous collection of cartoons, EXCUSE ME (September 2019). Liana Finck has 566,000 followers on Instagram and counting, including many prominent artists, actors, and writers.
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Published 2022-04-12 by Random House |