One of the best collections Ive ever read. Every single story is a standout.Roxane Gay WINNER OF THE CHAUTAUQUA PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE STORY PRIZENAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPRRefinery29BookRiot Fuses science, myth, and imagination into a dark and gorgeous series of questions about our current predicaments.­Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See A dystopian tale about genetically modified septuplets who are struck by a mysterious illness; a love story about a man bewitched by a mermaid; a stirring imagining of the lives of Nigerian schoolgirls in the aftermath of a Boko Haram kidnappingThe stories in All the Names They Used for God break down genre barriersfrom science fiction to American Gothic to magical realism to horrorand are united by each characters brutal struggle with fate. Like many of us, the characters in this collection are in pursuit of the sublime. Along the way, they must navigate the borderland between salvation