Quintin Reyes is searching for his brother, but Carlos is just one of millions who have gone missing since "the Awakening." In a moment, humanity was stripped of faith in all of its gods, and now people are abandoning their families and careers to embrace unbridled debauchery-or to end their lives. Is Carlos one of those lost souls? Or is there more behind his disappearance?
Driving across the United States, Quintin finds a nation transformed by both terrible loss and sudden liberation. With devastated believers seeking a surrogate for religion in the post-Awakening world, a mysterious group promises a better way forward, but who are the Elenchi and what can they really offer?
An irreverent but humane journey through a faithless America, The Awakening makes the case for redemption in unbelief.
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Joseph Lyttleton is an American writer and editor based in Madrid, Spain. From 2005 to 2015, he lived in ten different US cities for his 10 Cities/10 Years project. Since 2023, he has cohosted the Madrid Writers Group. His first novel, Yahweh's Children, was published in 2018.