{"product_id":"the-world-is-a-narrow-bridge","title":"The World Is a Narrow Bridge","description":"\u003cp\u003eA book that looks at existence with equal measures of fear  humility and gratitude. In a time when novelists tend to be more concerned with psychology than the soul  that makes it a rare and valuable thing. --Sam Sacks  Wall Street Journal  From the author of Mr. Eternity  a darkly comic road novel about a millennial couple facing the ultimate question: how to live and love in an age of catastrophe.  Young Miami couple Murphy and Eva have almost decided to have a baby when Yahweh  the Old Testament God  appears to Eva and makes an unwelcome demand: He wants her to be his prophet. He also wants her to manage his social media presence.  Yahweh sends the two on a wild road trip across the country  making incomprehensible demands and mandating arcane rituals as they go. He gives them a hundred million dollars  but he asks them to use it to build a temple on top of a landfill. He forces them to endure a period of Biblical wandering in the deserts of the southwest. Along the way they are continually mistaken for another couple  a pair of North Carolina society people  and find themselves attending increasingly bizarre events in their names. At odds with their mission but helpless to disobey  Murphy and Eva search their surroundings for signs of a future they can have faith in.  Through wry observations about the biggest things--cosmology and theology--and the smallest things--the joys and irritations of daily life--Thier questions the mysterious forces that shape our fates  and wonders how much free will we really have. Equal parts hilarious and poignant  The World Is a Narrow Bridge asks: What kind of hope can we pass on to the next generation in a frightening but beautiful world?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44949568454709,"sku":"ByrdShop_1635571413","price":58.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781635571417_a85fb57c-915a-40ff-8f73-1d21ed2f9434.jpg?v=1770337796","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-world-is-a-narrow-bridge","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}