{"product_id":"to-god-by-esther-yi-10-13-26","title":"To God by Esther Yi (10\/13\/26)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"mainContent___KncIm\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv role=\"tabpanel\" id=\"title-references-tabpanel-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"MuiBox-root css-old1by\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003e**PREORDER TODAY - ON SALE - OCTOBER 13, 2026**\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\"[An] audacious work of fiction . . . The collection is rife with indelible turns of phrase, and it swells into a fascinating meditation on where a writer, locked into the struggles of others, might find God. This astonishes.\" —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the author of the acclaimed debut\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eY\/N\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ecomes a daring collection of fiction about alienation, sex, and religious inquiry.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTo God\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003etakes on love in its many forms. In “The White Michel,” the narrator makes an appearance in a fellow boxer’s sex dream, which he has upon falling asleep at his father’s funeral. A nun in “No Right Hand” likes being in a relationship with God because the more openly shameful and heat-stricken her passion for Him, the more confident He seems to feel about their relationship. And in “Mutter,” after observing a nearly extinct species of condor at the zoo, an aging mother assures her daughter that she would never die slowly that way: \"Things would get so bad that you’d be relieved when I die. No, it's healthier to catapult you into grief.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt the core of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eTo God\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a voice, a beam of light upholding the entire collection, around which the world rearranges and reincarnates. Navigating daily life, daily alienation, and daily relationships, the voice asks the following questions: how do you construct a self; how do you know oneself; how do you know another; what does it feel like to know. The voice is born of absence and experiments with presence: a body, a personality, a set of relationships, an imagination. Absence fuels fantasy, a kind of unbridled prayer; this logic becomes a stairway that the reader gets to ascend until the entire material world recedes and all that’s left is absence again—but this time in the form of the absolute, a question to God. At the atomic level of language, the infrastructural level of genre play, and the cosmic level of existential threat, Esther Yi’s formidable talent radiates.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Golden Hour Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":67537292788012,"sku":"9781662603617","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0793\/4623\/7740\/files\/togod.jpg?v=1790604289","url":"https:\/\/goldenhourbookstore.com\/products\/to-god-by-esther-yi-10-13-26","provider":"Golden Hour Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}