God and Sex

A Novel

by Jon Raymond

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Pub Date Aug 05 2025 | Archive Date Sep 04 2025

Simon & Schuster

General Fiction (Adult) | Romance

Description

From the award-winning author of Denial comes a novel about a New Age writer whose life is irrevocably changed when a devastating climate disaster forces him to confront his belief in the existence of God.

What if God spoke to you? Would you hear Him? Would you obey His command?

Arthur Zinn, an author of high-end spiritual texts, has fallen in love with a librarian married to a newfound close friend. When an environmental disaster threatens her life, Arthur’s frantic prayers lead to a mystifying event that challenges his assumptions about the nature of the universe and the divine. In God and Sex, Oregon Book Award winner and acclaimed screenwriter Jon Raymond masterfully entwines themes of ecology, mortality, art, faith, and the tangled complexities of carnal love.

Advance Praise

“In this profoundly beautiful and exquisitely ambiguous novel, Jon Raymond questions the opposition between the terrestrial and the celestial—between desire and virtue—while showing how we may hope to bridge them through love, friendship, and art. It is hard to stop reading once you start. And it is impossible to stop thinking about the dilemmas it presents after turning the last page.”

-Hernan Diaz, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Trust