God takes the mortal human form of a young Dinka woman in Sudan and ends up dying in the desert of Darfur. The short stories that follow ask one simple question: and then what happens? It's a pretty cool premise to explore, and the first few stories are great good fun, especially Indian Summer (set in the post-God world where a group of savage boys take turns bursting each other's faces with open with handguns in their dark parent-less house) and Interview with the Last Remaining Member of the Feral Dog Pack Which Fed on God's Corpse (pretty self-explanatory, right?), but it slowly grows pedantic, and unfunny, and a tiny bit pretentious. Ron Currie is a good writer, and his new book, Everything Matters!, about the world ending on the narrator's 36th birthday, looks much more intriguing. So, eh, I don't know, if the God is Dead premise tickles you, you might want to check it out. Otherwise, skip ahead.
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