Godhead · #3
God's body has self-destructed and His skull is now in orbit directly above Times Square, triggering a plague of "death awareness" and causing the United States to resemble fourteenth-century Europe during the Black Death.
As the epidemic accelerates, two people fight to preserve life and sanity: Nora Burkhart, a schoolteacher who will stop at nothing to rescue her only son, and Gerard Korty, a brilliant sculptor struggling to to create a masterwork that will heal the metaphysical wounds caused by God's abdication. Among other apocalyptic wonders, Morrow depicts a pitched battle between Jews and anti-Semites on a New Jersey golf course... a theater troupe's stirring dramatization of the Gilgamesh epic... and the villainy of Dr. Adrian Lucido, founder of a new church in Coatzacoalcos and inventor of a cure more dreadful than any disease.
James Morrow (born 1947) is a fiction author. A self-described "scientific humanist", his work satirises organized religion and elements of humanism and atheism. He lives in State College, Pennsylvania with his wife, Kathryn Smith Morrow, his son, Christopher, and their dogs. His cousin is the journalist Lance Morrow.
