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Represented By: Sharmaine Lovegrove
Thereafter, he spent the better part of twenty years teaching high school English, first at a boarding school in Connecticut and then in independent schools in Hong Kong (where he lived for eight years), New York, and San Francisco.
His first piece of published writing, the personal essay “Seeing Your Self,” appeared on thefeministwire.com in 2014 and details his life growing up in the Black church. He is senior editor of Citizen Magazine, an annual print publication covering Black art and culture, and has reviewed books for the South China Morning Post Magazine in Hong Kong and Politico Magazine.
An avid traveler and foodie, he can’t really call any one place home, but he currently spends a lot of his time in Mexico City.
Represented By: Sharmaine Lovegrove
Thereafter, he spent the better part of twenty years teaching high school English, first at a boarding school in Connecticut and then in independent schools in Hong Kong (where he lived for eight years), New York, and San Francisco.
His first piece of published writing, the personal essay “Seeing Your Self,” appeared on thefeministwire.com in 2014 and details his life growing up in the Black church. He is senior editor of Citizen Magazine, an annual print publication covering Black art and culture, and has reviewed books for the South China Morning Post Magazine in Hong Kong and Politico Magazine.
An avid traveler and foodie, he can’t really call any one place home, but he currently spends a lot of his time in Mexico City.
Author: Kevin Quinn
Genres: Literary Fiction
CHILD AND GOD is a searing story of faith, family, and the terror of salvation.
It tells story of an unnamed brother and sister growing up in a Pentecostal Christian household, their lives diverging under the weight of belief.
Told in tight, alternating narratives—Him, Her, and Them—the novel inhabits both the intimacy of their individual selves and the fraught terrain of their shared world.
The sister, older and more knowing than anyone suspects, quietly resists their religious context. The younger brother, by contrast, appears destined for unwavering devotion—if he can excise those parts of himself he fears God will not accept.
What emerges is a haunting meditation on the American Black church: its beauty, its terror, and the profound psychological toll it exacts. At its heart lies the child who is told he must be “trained in the way he should go,” and the perilous cost of such training on the soul.
For readers of Elena Ferrante’s MY BRILLIANT FRIEND, Deborah Levy’s THE COST OF LIVING, and Chigozie Obioma’s AN ORCHESTRA OF MINORITIES — novels that chart friendship, identity, and spiritual questioning against the pressures of family, faith, and society.