# Missing Books II

Originally published: 2016-06-27
Canonical URL: /2016/Jun/missing-books-ii/

A _roman à clef_ about a very religious teenager who gradually figures out that God isn't real around ages 20 and 21, spends the next eight years feeling OK about this, then one day suddenly realizes that God not being real _implies that prayers don't work_, and _freaks the fuck out_. His friends (who grew up in the same community but don't share his incredible lack of native talent for hypocrisy) are unsympathetic. "You really thought that would work?" "Yes!" "But didn't you notice that—" _(sobbing)_ "I didn't!"