All the Names They Used for God - Stories

Anjali Sachdeva

Spiegel & Grau

2018

272 páginas

9h 4m

ISBN-13: 9780399593000

“One of the best collections I’ve ever read. Every single story is a standout.”­—Roxane Gay

“Fuses science, myth, and imagination into a dark and gorgeous series of questions about our current predicaments.”­—Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See

“Strange and wonderful . . . delightfully unexpected.”—The New York Times Book Review

From a dystopian tale about genetically modified septuplets who are struck by a mysterious illness to a love story about a man bewitched by a mermaid to a stirring imagining of the lives of Nigerian schoolgirls in the aftermath of a Boko Haram kidnapping, the stories in All the Names They Used for God break down genre barriers—from science fiction to American Gothic to magical realism to horror—and are united by each character’s brutal struggle with fate. Like many of us, the characters in this collection are in pursuit of the sublime, and along the way walk the knife-edge between wonder and terror, salvation and destruction.