Book cover for Yahweh's Children by Joseph Lyttleton

Yahweh's Children

2018 Released
272 Pages
4-6 Hours
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Independently PublishedISBN 9781981000890
In the early years of the 21st century, humanity begins to receive transmissions from a long vanished alien species. At first, these messages from a distant galaxy appear to be indecipherable gibberish, except for a single word written in an ancient human language: "Yahweh". As these messages slowly reveal their meaning over the next decades, society will be forever changed, both for good and bad.

Yahweh's Children follows three generations of the Priestly family and their day-to-day struggles through interweaving timelines. The Priestly men - Wyatt, his son, Parker, and Parker's son, Alex - are a stubborn and slightly misanthropic tribe, driven equally by their passions and their disdain for their fathers. They are ordinary men living in extraordinary times, watching as their world is transformed by events far bigger than them.

A novel about who we are, who we've been, and who we will become, Yahweh's Children is a sharply satirical but entirely plausible alternate history of what's yet to come.

Joseph Lyttleton

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.

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