God and Sex
A Novel
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About The Book
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.
Product Details
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster (August 5, 2025)
- Length: 256 pages
- ISBN13: 9781668084915
Raves and Reviews
"In God and Sex, Jon Raymond has recontextualized timeless novelistic questions—on faith and love—in an era of environmental collapse.”
– The Nation
“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 God and Sex 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
“A novel that lives up to its epic title.”
– Sam Dolnick, New York Times Book Review
"Exceptional… an unexpected answer to readers’ prayers for fiction that dares to approach the treacherous border of faith."
– Ron Charles, Washington Post
“A profound literary experience.”
– Jeffrey Condran, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
“As book titles go, God and Sex is pretty provocative, but it’s also honest advertising… The exact relationship between desire, belief, and where we all fit into this Earthly creation is messy and unclear but nonetheless potent. Raymond’s book, at its core, captures the power of the feeling.”
– Portland Mercury
"I’m a big fan of Raymond’s—both his screenplays and his fiction—and this feels like a level-up for him. With near-hallucinatory intensity, he tells the freighted story of a struggling spiritualist writer in Oregon who embarks on an affair with his friend’s wife, then faces potential blowback from God him(?)self. The action is spare and straightforward, but there’s an almost inexplicable momentum to the narrative, making it easy to devour in a weekend."
– Conner Reed, Publishers Weekly
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