Rarely has an Evangelical upbringing been depicted with the relentless honesty, wide-ranging empathy, and Superbad-meets-Siddhartha playfulness of USA Today best-seller HELL IS A WORLD WITHOUT YOU. During the time of Pizza Hut buffets, 9/11, and all-night Mario Kart parties, a grieving teenager faces a mortal crossroads: fire-and-brimstone certainty vs. forbidden love. And whether or not you've ever begged God to delay the Rapture (so you could have time to lose your virginity), that kid's story is about you.

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About the Author

Jason Kirk, a longtime sports journalist, co-hosts two popular podcasts, the Shutdown Fullcast and Vacation Bible School. He's contributed to The Athletic, This American Life, Penguin Random House's Hazlitt Magazine, Slate, USA Today, Vox, and many others. Having grown up as a maximum-effort Southern Baptist, he's now a lazy Christian pantheist. His non-fiction literary agent is Erik Hane of Headwater Literary Management.

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