Gods Without Men

About this book

In the desert you see there is everything and nothing . . . It is God without men. Honor de Balzac Une passion dans le dsert 1830 Jaz and Lisa Matharu are plunged into a surreal public hell after their son Raj vanishes during a family vacation in the California desert. However the Mojave is a place of strange power and before Raj reappears inexplicably unharmedbut not unchangedthe fate of this young family will intersect with that of many others echoing the stories of all those who have traveled before them. Driven by the energy and cunning of Coyote the mythic shape-shifting trickster Gods Without Men is full of big ideas but centered on flesh-and-blood characters who converge at an odd remote town in the shadow of a rock formation called the Pinnacles. Viscerally gripping and intellectually engaging it is above all a heartfelt exploration of the search for pattern and meaning in a chaotic universe.