RaveThe Los Angeles Review of BooksBecause the word 'God' appears in the title, the nonreligious reader might move on along. Stay. Many will buy this book because of the religious tag, but if this is a religious collection, then the book is a religious mongrel in the best sense ... Joy Williams is our contemporary O’Connor with a mix of Protestant sacraments and a Zen Koan consciousness ... The book knocks down the barriers of genre definition, and the sublime shifts along an axis from irony to dark humor.