Jesus at the Breakfast Bar, Searching for God with people who never read directions

In these ten offbeat stories, Christians, Jews, and skeptics stumble through spiritual detours, crises, and comic missteps. - A college student battling substance abuse finds Jesus after being swindled in a drug deal - A suburban husband and father turns his daughter's Barbie into a Voodoo doll as he slides into evil - A trivia champion hooks up with a doomed young woman, leading to a hard collision with the things that really matter Some of these characters get closer to God, some drift away-but all are searching in unexpected places. Jonathan Cohen has created an original and moving gallery of modern-day seekers and sinners. Jonathan David Cohen was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Creative Writing at Stanford University. His business and technology journalism has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The American Spectator, and numerous websites, journals, and magazines. He lives in South Carolina with his wife, Sylvia, and two dogs, Elvis and Lulu.