Confessions of a Discontented Deity

by Michael Z. Lewin

Ever wondered what God is like? Well if you think about it… He created man in His own image, so if you look at men and work backwards you’ll get the picture. God is clearly self-obsessed and geeky. He wants to get laid, avoid hassle and be allowed to play with His toys. Granted God’s toys are the ones He creates bits of the Universe with but you get the idea.

Of course things for Him needn’t always be like this. Men can change – some of them – and so can God. And in this novel God recounts a recent period when He discovered that He was no longer satisfied with His life. The change took Him completely by surprise. He follows the incidents and thinking that enabled Him to understand what His discontent was all about. And where He should go from here, for Himself and for man and womankind.

Michael Z. Lewin is the award-winning author of numerous mystery novels and short stories. This is the first time, however, he’s taken on the mystery of life, the universe and the rest of it. If you know his work, you’ll recognize his light touch style but these are weighty issues.

More than anything else, this book is comment on modern man, looking down. In an earlier book, Rover’s Tales, the perspective on modern man was from the ground up. In fact Rover makes a guest appearance in Confessions.

210 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 18, 2012

About the author

Michael Zinn Lewin is an American writer of mystery fiction perhaps best known for his series about Albert Samson, a distinctly low-keyed, non-hardboiled private detective who plies his trade in Indianapolis, Indiana. Lewin himself grew up in Indianapolis, but after graduating from Harvard and living for a few years in New York City, has lived in England for the last 40 years. Much of his fiction continues to be set in Indianapolis, including a secondary series about Leroy Powder, a policeman who frequently appears in the Samson novels, generally in a semi-confrontational manner.

Another series, however, is set in Bath, England, where Lewin now lives. This features the Lunghis who run their detective agency as a family business. So far there are three novels and nine short stories about them.

Lewin has also written a number of stand-alone novels. Some have been set in Indianapolis and others elsewhere. His latest novel, Confessions of a Discontented Deity, is even set partly in Heaven. A satire, it breaks from Lewin's history of genre fiction.

Lewin is the son of Leonard C. Lewin, author of the 1967 bestselling satire The Report from Iron Mountain: On the Possibility and Desirability of Peace.