?An irreverent yet profound retelling of the Book of Genesis . . . Throughout, God and readers are reminded that light can?t exist without darkness, or creation without destruction. Finck?s exploration offers much light in both senses: levity and illumination.??Publishers Weekly Liana Finck is the author of Passing for Human and Excuse Me and a regular contributor to The New Yorker. She is a recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, and a Six Points Fellowship for Emerging Jewish Artists. She has had artist residencies with MacDowell, Yaddo, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Headlands Center for the Arts, and Willapa Bay.