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Staring Into the Void with Hari Kunzru (New Yorker)

Hari Kunzru's new novel, "Gods Without Men," is the kind of book that
reverberates long after you finish reading it. The main story concerns a New
York couple, Jaz and Lisa, who travel to the empty spaces of eastern
California with their severely autistic son, Raj, and the mysterious tragedy
that befalls them there. But it contains many other stories and characters
besides, spanning hundreds of years, all linked by an intricate web of echoes
and clues, and all of which converge, in one way or another, at Pinnacle
Rocks, a seemingly mystical geological formation in the desolate heart of the
Mojave Desert.

I was especially taken by the book's metaphysical ideas, and the other day I
sat down with Kunzru in a Chelsea cafe to discuss them. The central question
of "Gods Without Men," he told me, is "how people handle not just the unknown,
but the unknowable." Religion, then, is a common theme: One chapter concerns
an eighteenth-century Franciscan friar; another follows a nineteenth-century
Mormon silver miner. An ethnographer picks at the dying myths of a desert
tribe. Women in burkas drift along the shoulder of the highway. A Wall Street
savant develops a ...

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