Act of God: A Novel

Jill Ciments books have been hailed as stunning, powerful, and provocative. Alice Sebold has called her works beautifully written. Now the author of Heroic Measures Smart and funny and completely surprising . . . I loved every page. —Ann Patchett Brave, generous, nearly perfect. —Los Angeles Times has given us a contemporary noir novel that starts out a comedy of errors and turns darker at every hairpin turn.   Its the summer of 2015, Brooklyn. The city is sweltering from another record-breaking heat wave, this one accompanied by biblical rains. Edith, a recently retired legal librarian, and her identical twin sister, Kat, a feckless romantic whos mistaken her own eccentricity for originality, discover something ominous in their hall closet it seems to be phosphorescent, its a mushroom .