Godless
Author: Pete Hautman
“Why mess around with Catholicism when you can have your own customized religion?”,,Fed up with his parents’ boring old religion, agnostic-going-on-atheist Jason Bock invents a new god — the town’s water tower. He recruits an unlikely group of worshippers: his snail-farming best friend, Shin, cute-as-a-button (whatever that means) Magda Price, and the violent and unpredic….Read More
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