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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Fire & Brimstone: Sex, Lies and Drama

Fire & Brimstone: Sex, Lies and Drama

Brown, Laurinda D.

Paperback

RomanceGeneral FictionGeneral GLBTQIA Fiction

ISBN10: 1593090153
ISBN13: 9781593090159
Publisher: Strebor Books Intl Llc
Published: Mar 30 2004
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
Awards: Lambda Literary Awards
Chris Desmereaux--college graduate, churchgoer, and single mother--is struggling with poverty, coming to terms with her sexuality, and finding love--though she is unaware that her life will change, for better or worse, 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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