Sasha Devore's "God, Science, and a Really Dumb Experiment"

I've become a public school teacher, which leaves me less time to read for pleasure, but what a pleasure it was to read Sasha Devore's God, Science, and a Really Dumb Experiment. I picked up this book nearly a year ago at a Half Price Books in south Austin. I went there to replace my copy of Etgar Keret's Fly Already which I had given to a friend, and then regretted no longer having it. Sasha Devore was there in person with her books, so I wished to be supportive of emerging authors, and bought this one. My teacher responsibilities soon took over and I shelved it until recently, then picked it up again when I had no more grading, lesson plans or #$%! training modules hanging over my head. This was a delightful read. The protagonist is a science teacher, who occasionally pauses the narrative to express fun scientific facts. A quick summary: using a particle accelerator, scientists accidentally summon God, who appears as a woman. Bringing God to earth has left things unbalanced and the scientists in the story try to figure out how to send God back. I have, for the time being, left the exciting world of teaching middle school maths to teach 10th grade English. I wish I could include this book on my classroom library shelf, but due to Texas Senate Bills 12 and 13, I have to get district approval for any book in my class library. The protagonist is a lesbian of color. And the theological ideas in this book don't match what the theocrats in our legislature would like to impose in our classes. Nonetheless, if any of my students express an interest in reading a book of this sort, I will quietly encourage them to read it.