In Absinth, you'll meet three main characters trying to figure out
their life on the backdrop of the upcoming Apocalypse: Iris, a
fortune-teller who cannot see not the future but weirdly anachronistic
versions of the past; Sid Saperstein, a shameless huckster chosen to
publish a sacred manuscript whose message will shake heaven and earth
alike; Hermes, the Greek messenger god, dispatched by Zeus to sound out
his fellow deities, still smarting from the licking they took two
thousand years ago, on how best to take advantage of the coming changes,
whatever they may be. And also God Himself, whose enigmatic voice
addresses us throughout the novel in the contemporary koans of
advertising lingo.