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Jill Ciment s books have been hailed as stunning, powerful, and provocative. Alice Sebold has called her works beautifully written. Now the author of Heroic Measures (Smart and funny and completely surprising ... I loved every page. Ann Patchett; Brave, generous, nearly perfect. Los Angeles Times) has given us a contemporary noir novel that starts out a comedy of errors and turns darker at every hairpin turn. It s the summer of 2015, Brooklyn. The city is sweltering from another record-breaking heat wave, this one accompanied by biblical rains. Edith, a recently retired legal librarian, and her identical twin sister, Kat, a feckless romantic who s mistaken her own eccentricity for originality, discover something ominous in their hall closet: it seems to be phosphorescent, it s a mushroom ... and it s sprouting from their wall. Upstairs, their landlady, Vida Cebu, a Shakespearian actress far more famous for her TV commercials for Ziberax (the first female sexual enhancement pill) than for her stage work, discovers that a petite Russian girl, a runaway au pair, has been secretly living in her guest room closet. When the police arrest the intruder, they find a second mushroom, also gl

Who reads Act of God: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries)?

Author

Ciment, Jill, 1953-

Publisher

Vintage Contemporaries, Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307911704

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Horror

Rating

3.07 / 5 (724 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14