You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine by Alexandra Kleeman
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Not gonna say a whole lot about it, but this book is about Christian theology. The cult is a reference to the early Gnostic heresies; it’s grappling with the some very theological problems; the boyfriend’s name is Chris.
It ends exactly right, by not resolving. It hovers on that edge between realism and absurdity. The world is as recognizable and coherent as our own world, and as weird as our own world. This is what absurdity does, when done well: it shows you the real world as it truly is, which is incredibly strange.
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