Creative Enterprises, Inc. PAPERBACK. Good. Spine creased. Cover bright and shiny. Binding tight, pages crisp and clean. Light edge wear, scratches and dents. Corners have minimal tip wear. Ships via Media Mail within 2 business days.

Synopsis

Chris Desmereaux, college graduate and single mother of two, staring down the food stamp line, looking for love, compassion, and stability, is unaware that she has just been awarded her own personal advanced ghetto degree the day Gayle Evans finds her personal ad in the paper -- and answers it. Gayle Evans, toe-tapping, knee-slapping, make-you-wanna-holla Minister of Music with a divine gift from God. "Praise the Lord" is her mantra. Macking women is her game. Destroying every life she touches, Gayle brings more misery than harmony. She has a lesson or two to learn after she uses her "relationship with God" to break up a seemingly happy home. Alternately set in Washington, D.C. and Memphis, Tennessee, Fire & Brimstone is an "in your face" tale that explores lesbianism and Black motherhood as both separate and integrated issues impacting the main character's role as a single parent, while opening dialogue on same-sex domestic violence, religious beliefs, bisexuality, negligent fathers, economics, and intra-racial caste systems among African-Americans. Depending on one's beliefs and opinions, Fire & Brimstone leaves no room for "in-between" emotions, leading the reader to ultimately draw his or her own conclusion as to what the ending actually means: Is homosexuality a sin, or does God love us as we are? The author reminds us that gay women are everywhere, even in the African-American church -- a place where no one expects to find them. Fire & Brimstone does an excellent job of testing the boundaries of 21st century morality.

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Bookseller: Artless Missals (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: PT-NIJF-5LSB
Title: Fire and Brimstone
Author: Brown, Laurinda D
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Good
Quantity Available: 1
ISBN 10: 0971001901
ISBN 13: 9780971001909
Publisher: Creative Enterprises, Inc
This edition first published: March 22, 2001

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