{"product_id":"good-god-kiese-laymon","title":"Good, God","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA powerful, benedictive new memoir from a master of the form,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eGood, God\u003c\/em\u003e:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Creation Story\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eprobes the comic, and often ghoulish, experience of creating children, creating good friendship, creating good art, and creating good Gods while waiting to die in America.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen Kiese Laymon’s best friend invites him to help her create a child in the age of Trump, Laymon must reckon with how a romanticization of Mississippi, his role as a writer, and his grandmother, have telegraphed the kind of friend, father, and artist he can be. Why doesn’t he want to be a father in this nation? Why is he insistent that Mississippi is the only place he would consider helping a child be born? What if his grandmother, his reason for living and making art, dies before a child can be born?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhile probing the relationships with three generations of women in his life, Laymon continues his courageous, wide-open approach to memoir with \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eGood, God\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—an attempt to lay bare the knot of intimacy and brutality that lies at the heart of all confession: whether it be between parent and child, partner and partner, reader and writer, comedy and tragedy, the north and the deep south.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSpanning fifty years, from his childhood to the present, delivered through several powerful episodes that fold into one another—his childhood memories of a mysterious stranger whose sudden appearance undoes his grandmother; a kind Northern white family who comes to stay with his grandmother on the presumption that they know her from his books; the process of trying to create a child with his best friend as he is treated for cancer—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eGood, God\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e invites us into experiences we cannot shed, where good, God, grandmothers, prayer, and every conception of love itself, must be reconsidered, recast and recreated holy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":50203949924600,"sku":"9781982172138","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0471\/2156\/3811\/files\/good_god.png?v=1787371161","url":"https:\/\/www.sscarletsweb.com\/products\/good-god-kiese-laymon","provider":"Sscarlet's Web Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}