An Atheist's Book of Prayers

America exists in collapsing waves of witnessed probability in Bishop's stunning and honest An Atheist's Book of Prayers; this fabled nation is forced through the lenses of a voice grappling with irreconcilable realities that somehow persist side by side. These prayers come from a body that insists on its own beauty trapped in a nation that insists on its own ugliness, from delicate words, images, and sounds strewn about the pages to hollow out enough space for its own America, its own reli...