What would happen if the Messiah was a woman, and not the man people have always taken her to be? What if she showed up in rural America, instead of riding triumphantly into Jerusalem? If she preached moral license, not repentance? All of that does happen, and more, in this startlingly original, mischievous and penetrating novel by David Homel. In Homel's tale of theology and erotics, Nathan Gazarra, a Hebew peddler, travels the backroads, from town...