Blog tour: The God of No Good

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Welcome to the blog tour for The God of No Good by Sita Walker!

More about the book…

Traversing decades and continents – from Iran to India, Sri Lanka to the Czech Republic, Adelaide to the Torres Strait – The God of No Good is a beautifully lyrical and funny intergenerational memoir about six women and how their lives intertwine. Filled with wit and wisdom, it is a story that only Sita Walker could tell, but it will resonate with readers everywhere. It’s Wild Swans meets Nora Ephron.

This is not a book about divorce. It’s not a book about God, either. You might think it is a book about goodness and what it means to be a good person, but it isn’t. Like everything else, this is about love.

Sita Walker was raised by five strong matriarchs who taught her to believe in God and to be good. Her grandmother, mother and three aunts believed in their unshakeable Bahá’í faith, in the power of prayer, in sacrifice, in magic, in the healing of turmeric and tea, and the wisdom of dreams.

But as hard as she tries to be good, Sita always suspects that deep down, she isn’t very good at all.

At thirty-five, she hasn’t prayed in years, her dream of true love has died, and along with it, her faith – not that she’s telling her mother, or her aunts. Now, the only way she can fulfill her destiny is to seek out the wisdom of the ones who came before, and truly understand the women who raised her. But will they understand her? Either way, the matriarchy will never be the same again.

More about the author…

Sita Walker is an English and Literature high school teacher in Brisbane.

Her first piece, Love in the Time of Grandmother, was shortlisted in the SBS Emerging Writers Competition and was published by Hardie Grant in the anthology, Roots: Home is Who We Are.

Before that, she dabbled in blogging and wrote short letters to her students. 

The God of No Good is her debut book.

My impressions…

If you can take your eyes off this stunning cover, throughout these pages you will read about the author’s past and present, and how all of that is connected and has been shaped by the amazing women who have come before her. This book is an ode to the importance of family and the strength that our matriarchs and matriarchs all over the world need to be able to see their families through good times and bad times. It’s a love letter of sorts, and it’s beautiful.

Three words to describe it. Funny. Thought-provoking. Moving.

Do I like the cover? Yes, it’s gorgeous!

Have I read any other books by the same author? No, this is her debut novel.

 

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