As Many Hands As God Author:Brian Ames The 19 stories survey wide-ranging landscapes both tangible and psychological in posing the questions: If there is a creator, and if that creator intervenes in human affairs, how does that intervention come about? Story geographies include the bright, bleached deserts of the West Great Basin; the desensitizing darkness of a New Jersey hotel roo... more »m; the humid torpor of a Midwest minor league baseball diamond at high summer; and time-shifting through an apple orchard in central Washington state in search of forgiveness. Ames explores themes of loss and recovery, ache and joy, offense and reconciliation, sin and redemption. Ultimately, he stakes out a position that if God does have hands and intervenes in humanity, those hands are people of all ages, ethnicities and backgrounds. Stories in As Many Hands As God appeared in several prominent literary journals including The North American Review, Glimmer Train Stories, Night Train, and the Massachusetts Review.« less