At a hot-dog-eating contest or at a demolition derby in line at the pharmacy counter waiting for a shingles vaccination living in a cave with a colony of bats the Almighty appears in ever-more mysterious ways in Ninety-Nine Stories of God Joy Williams' surreal sublime new collection of very short short stories Each less than a page long each packing a punch belied by its size every one of these ninety-nine stories tells of everyday human interaction with an increasingly elusive & arbitrary deity Haunted by an array of extraordinary historical figures from Kafka & Tolstoy to O J Simpson & Philip K Dick but populated by anonymous ordinary people just like you & me the stories pool seemingly random moments into something deep dazzling & disconcerting Bleak & funny ironic & lyrical enigmatic & aphoristic Ninety-Nine Stories of God breaks down the barriers between the everyday & the divine & takes Williams' writing into territories strange & new