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    612-822-4611

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God Was Busy With the Plumbing

God Was Busy With the Plumbing

Biletskyi-Volokh, Anton

Paperback

Humor

ISBN13: 9798259382732
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 29 2026
Pages: 180
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.41 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Jonathan Swanson is a former artist turned handyman. He fixes other people's pipes, sockets, doors, and boilers, while his own life has been standing face-first against the wall for years.

A few days before Christmas, Jonathan wants only quiet: tea, a book, a walk through the park, and no emergency calls. Instead, he is sent to Saint Barnabas Hospital, where a serious plumbing problem has begun rising from below.

Over the course of one strange night, Jonathan meets a prophetic park caretaker, surgeons in bear and elephant masks, doctors who joke about death, a technician who hears Brahms inside a pipe, and a neighbor who may have once belonged to a secret space program.

God Was Busy With the Plumbing is an absurdist literary novella about loneliness, faith, the body, work, snow, and small forms of mercy.

A darkly funny story about a world that cannot be fully repaired, but still needs someone to try.

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