Act of God

By Jill Ciment

Book Overview

It's the summer of 2015, Brooklyn, and the city is sweltering from another record-breaking heat wave, this one accompanied by biblical rains. Edith, a recently retired legal librarian, and her identical twin sister, Kat, have discovered something ominous in their hall closet: it's shaped like a mushroom, it's phosphorescent, and it's rapidly consuming their wall. But that's only the beginning ... Part suspense, part screwball comedy, Jill Ciment's brilliant novel looks at what happens when our lives--so seemingly set and ordered--break down in the wake of calamity.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804169705
• ISBN13: 9780804169707
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.1" x 7.9"