Jesus in L.A.
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Carney, Emily
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2018-04-01T00:00:00-07:00
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Jesus in L.A. follows the lives of Jesus, the collection’s protagonist and the twenty-first-century version of Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ, or “Christ,” the biblical version of Jesus Christ; and Jesus’ ex-girlfriend, the earth. Throughout the collection, Jesus struggles with the self-estrangement, cultural aimlessness, and consumerism inherent to modern-day America. Meanwhile, Christ and the earth serve as backgrounds of indifference, until Jesus, increasingly alienated, leaves the story’s setting, L.A. Un-religious, Jesus in L.A. is social commentary on contemporary America, where recent shifts in ideologies have manifested themselves in quiet details.