God Was Busy With the Plumbing

By Anton Biletskyi-Volokh

Jonathan Swanson is a former artist turned handyman. He fixes other people's pipes, sockets, doors, and boilers, while his own life has been standing face-first against the wall for years.

A few days before Christmas, Jonathan wants only quiet: tea, a book, a walk through the park, and no emergency calls. Instead, he is sent to Saint Barnabas Hospital, where a serious plumbing problem has begun rising from below.

Over the course of one strange night, Jonathan meets a prophetic park caretaker, surgeons in bear and elephant masks, doctors who joke about death, a technician who hears Brahms inside a pipe, and a neighbor who may have once belonged to a secret space program.

God Was Busy With the Plumbing is an absurdist literary novella about loneliness, faith, the body, work, snow, and small forms of mercy.

A darkly funny story about a world that cannot be fully repaired, but still needs someone to try.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GYX4C2PV
• ISBN13: 9798259382732
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"