{"product_id":"good-god","title":"Good, God","description":"\u003cb\u003eA powerful, benedictive new memoir from a master of the form, \u003ci\u003eGood, God\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003ci\u003eA Creation Story\u003c\/i\u003e probes the comic, and often ghoulish, experience of creating children, creating good friendship, creating good art, and creating good Gods while waiting to die in America.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen Kiese Laymon's best friend invites him to help her create a child in the age of Trump, Laymon must reckon with how a romanticization of Mississippi, his role as a writer, and his grandmother, have telegraphed the kind of friend, father, and artist he can be. Why doesn't he want to be a father in this nation? Why is he insistent that Mississippi is the only place he would consider helping a child be born? What if his grandmother, his reason for living and making art, dies before a child can be born? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhile probing the relationships with three generations of women in his life, Laymon continues his courageous, wide-open approach to memoir with \u003ci\u003eGood, God\u003c\/i\u003e--an attempt to lay bare the knot of intimacy and brutality that lies at the heart of all confession: whether it be between parent and child, partner and partner, reader and writer, comedy and tragedy, the north and the deep south. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSpanning fifty years, from his childhood to the present, delivered through several powerful episodes that fold into one another--his childhood memories of a mysterious stranger whose sudden appearance undoes his grandmother; a kind Northern white family who comes to stay with his grandmother on the presumption that they know her from his books; the process of trying to create a child with his best friend as he is treated for cancer--\u003ci\u003eGood, God\u003c\/i\u003e invites us into experiences we cannot shed, where good, God, grandmothers, prayer, and every conception of love itself, must be reconsidered, recast and recreated holy.","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48841115107533,"sku":"9781982172138","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_3efafa4a-75bb-411b-b3e5-14fb51e698f8.jpg?v=1792003038","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/good-god","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}