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Author: Kevin Quinn
Genres: Literary Fiction
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.
Author: Kevin Quinn
Genres: Literary Fiction
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.