UnAmerica (Success and Failure Series)

God doesn t love America. Quite the reverse. The nation is in the iron claw of capitalism, Christianity s basic principles are flouted daily, the South has won the Civil War, slavery is widespread, exploitation rampant, and God now working as a janitor at Tastee Freez with late-onset Alzheimer s is rapidly losing the plot. In an effort to obliterate his botched creation from memory, the fallen divinity recruits retail worker Brad Power to enlist a crew of twelve for a seafaring adventure. The mission? To uninvent America. It s never too late, apparently, for an act of creative destruction. A delirious cousin to Kathy Acker s Pussy, King of the Pirates and reminiscent of Philip K. Dick s Valis and Voyage of the Dawn Treader by CS Lewis, Momus new novel UnAmerica remodels a classic, charmingly naive sixth century Christian tale The Voyage of Saint Brendan for the twenty-first century. Reworking the Irish monastic Wonder Voyage formula, Momus adds anachronistic brio and slapstick humor to the genre s wooden-faced didacticism.