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|author=Jill Ciment
|pages=192
|publisher=Pushkin Press
|date=7 July 2016
|isbn=9781782272113
|website=http://www.jillciment.com
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''Act of God'' is a story about two ageing twins who find a worrying mushroom growing in their cupboard, a landlady searching for the spotlight and a Russian immigrant whose greatest fear is insignificance. What the insurance company describes as an act of God brings their already overlapped, Brooklyn lives in to sharper focus. What do you do when disaster threatens? Is it survival of the fittest or should we love thy neighbour?
The only reason I put this as buy 'maybe' is that I wouldn't want to re-read it, but it is definitely, definitely worth reading once. And definitely worth making a selection of friends and family read it so you can discuss.
Thank you to the author, the publisher and the bookbag for my copy. We also have a review of [[Heroic Measures by Jill Ciment]].
If you like the sound of this, or want to try an act of god on a much larger scale, read [[X-isle by Steve Augarde]].