This dark, hilarious, and thought-provoking coming of age story about leaving Christianity and finding life is like nothing else.

Chuck Hicks was three years old when a social media headset glitch caused five billion people to believe they were God and jump off the nearest roof. Chuck has some hilarious vid-books of the event if you’re interested. Pure-comedy-gold.

Now seventeen, Chuck is stuck in an isolated, fundamentalist Christian compound. The girls wear flower dresses that double as burial shrouds, and the boys learn stone-age woodworking. Obsessed with the ancient novel, “Catcher in the Rye,” Chuck is also plagued by scrupulosity, a rare religious form of OCD which demands he repent for thinking about boobs by tapping his forehead in the mud and counting to seventy-seven. It gets him very little action.

When his disabled brother is miraculously healed of a terminal disease, their church declares it proof of the Lord’s imminent return. Except his brother faked the miracle using medicine that’s banned nationwide. To stop his brother from reverting into a sack of hairy jelly, Chuck and his friends must escape their religious compound and journey across a bizarre, corporation-run middle-America in search of an actual miracle. Their quest: Locate a mysterious nightclub in a remote Wyoming canyon, rumored to possess supernatural powers.

Fans of Chuck Palahniuk, J.D. Salinger, Seinfeld, and Christopher Hitchens will love exploring the larger themes and delightfully absurd mind and world of Chuck Hicks.

Written by an ex-pastor turned atheist who as a teenager developed the same for of religious OCD (scrupulosity) Chuck Hicks suffers from. Chuck’s voice speaks his unfiltered thoughts as an uncensored, jaded, scared, and perhaps even hopeful teenage boy. (Warning: this novel contains just about any trigger you can imagine.)