Book Review: Only Begotten Daughter by James Morrow

So I love religious satire. It makes me happy. Probably because I’m an agnostic who has read the Bible, so I actually get the jokes. Therefore, a book with the premise that God sent Her only begotten daughter to the earth should be right up my alley, right?

Well, yeah, kind of. This book was enjoyable, but it was fairly slow going in places. It was also rather grim. And for me to call a book grim, given that I generally like dark stories, that says something for how truly grim it actually was.

I think for a better example of religious satire, I’d recommend Gore Vidale’s Live from Golgotha which I reviewed here a few months ago. It’s a shorter book, and is somewhat less cluttered by random stylistic devices.