Gottlieb's Folly

Why do bad things happen to good people and why do wicked people prosper.Gottlieb, old, disappointed, fuddled, and his novelist and physicist son wonder if it is possible to understand the nature of god and his universe completely.If it is possible for there to be a world that is understandable without disaster. In search of God, Gottlieb tries alchemy, the phyicist looks for a Unification Theory, and the novelist writes fanciful retelling of stories from the Bible.There are also sins of greed, indifference, betrayal, and lust.