Act of God: Vintage Contemporaries

It s the summer of 2015, Brooklyn, and the city is sweltering from another record-breaking heat wave, this one accompanied by biblical rains. Edith, a recently retired legal librarian, and her identical twin sister, Kat, havediscovered something ominous in their hall closet: it s shaped like a mushroom, it s phosphorescent, and it s rapidly consuming their wall. But that s only the beginning
Part suspense, part screwball comedy, Jill Ciment s brilliant novel looks at what happens when our lives so seemingly set and ordered break down in the wake of calamity."