@booklet {10711, title = {"New Jesus"}, howpublished = {McSweeney{\textquoteright}s 58. 2040 A.D.}, volume = {58}, year = {2019}, month = {2019}, pages = {66-75}, publisher = {McSweeney{\textquoteright}s Quarterly Concern}, address = {San Francisco, CA}, abstract = {

The story is set in Oakland, California, which is now at sea level and most of the time Oaklanders are walking through water and most people had left for higher ground or moved onto a boat. The story concerns the impact of stories of a New Jesus is not the Second Coming but \“lives in each of us and in our action. . . . New Jesus is our cooperation with each other and with the earth\” (69). The protagonist rejects and makes fun of his niece, who is telling him and his wife about the New Jesus.

}, keywords = {Male author, Native American author}, author = {Tommy Orange (b. 1982)} }