All the Names They Used for God

Stories

Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy, Contemporary, Literary
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Author: Anjali Sachdeva ISBN: 9780525508670
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group Publication: February 20, 2018
Imprint: Spiegel & Grau Language: English
Author: Anjali Sachdeva
ISBN: 9780525508670
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication: February 20, 2018
Imprint: Spiegel & Grau
Language: English

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

WINNER OF THE CHAUTAUQUA PRIZE • LONGLISTED FOR THE STORY PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • Refinery29BookRiot

“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

A dystopian tale about genetically modified septuplets who are struck by a mysterious illness; a love story about a man bewitched by a mermaid; 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. Along the way, they must navigate the borderland between salvation and destruction.

NAMED A MUST-READ BOOK BY Harper’s BazaarEntertainment WeeklyAM New YorkReading Women AND A TOP READ BY ElleFast CompanyThe Christian Science Monitor • Bustle • Shondaland • Popsugar • Refinery29BookishNewsdayThe MillionsAsian American Writers’ WorkshopHelloGiggles

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

“Completing one [story] is like having lived an entire life, and then being born, breathless, into another.”—Carmen Maria Machado

“Captivating.”—NPR

“Gripping.”Los Angeles Review of Books

“[A] remarkable debut . . . Sachdeva is seemingly fearless and her talent limitless.”AM New York

“This phenomenal debut short-story collection is filled with stories that bring the otherworldly to life and examine the strangeness of humanity.”Bustle

“So rich they read like dreams . . . They are enormous stories, not in length but in ambition, each an entirely new, unsparing world. Beautiful, draining—and entirely unforgettable.”Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

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

WINNER OF THE CHAUTAUQUA PRIZE • LONGLISTED FOR THE STORY PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • Refinery29BookRiot

“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

A dystopian tale about genetically modified septuplets who are struck by a mysterious illness; a love story about a man bewitched by a mermaid; 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. Along the way, they must navigate the borderland between salvation and destruction.

NAMED A MUST-READ BOOK BY Harper’s BazaarEntertainment WeeklyAM New YorkReading Women AND A TOP READ BY ElleFast CompanyThe Christian Science Monitor • Bustle • Shondaland • Popsugar • Refinery29BookishNewsdayThe MillionsAsian American Writers’ WorkshopHelloGiggles

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

“Completing one [story] is like having lived an entire life, and then being born, breathless, into another.”—Carmen Maria Machado

“Captivating.”—NPR

“Gripping.”Los Angeles Review of Books

“[A] remarkable debut . . . Sachdeva is seemingly fearless and her talent limitless.”AM New York

“This phenomenal debut short-story collection is filled with stories that bring the otherworldly to life and examine the strangeness of humanity.”Bustle

“So rich they read like dreams . . . They are enormous stories, not in length but in ambition, each an entirely new, unsparing world. Beautiful, draining—and entirely unforgettable.”Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

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