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99 Stories of God by Joy Williams is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is 99 Stories of God about?
THE FIRST NEW BOOK IN A DECADE FROM THE ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF "STATE OF GRACE," "ESCAPES," "TAKING CARE," AND "BREAKING AND ENTERING" Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Joy Williams has a one-of-a-kind gift for capturing both the absurdity and the darkness of everyday life. In "99 Stories of God," she takes on one of mankind's most confounding preoccupations: the Supreme Being. This series of short, fictional vignettes explores our day-to-day interactions with an ever-elusive and arbitrary God. It's the Book of Common Prayer as seen through a looking glass — a powerfully vivid collection of seemingly random life moments that is by turns comic and yearning and Kafkaesque. Kafka himself makes an appearance (talking to a fish), as do Tolstoy, the Aztecs, Abraham and Sarah, and O. J. Simpson. Most of Williams's characters, however, are like the rest of us: anonymous strivers and bumblers who brush up against God in the least expected places or go searching for Him when He's standing right there. The Lord shows up at a hot-dog-eating contest, a demolition derby, a formal gala, and a drugstore, where he's in line to get a shingles vaccination: "Have you ever had chicken pox?"
Who reads 99 Stories of God?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Joy Williams
- Publisher
- Byliner Inc.
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- Category
- work of fiction
- Rating
- 3.63 / 5 (563 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14