The Sexy Part of the Bible
โ Scribed by Boof, Kola
- Book ID
- 108901858
- Publisher
- Akashic Books
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 224 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781936070961
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Number 7 on HEY, SMALL PRESS's Best Of 2011 list (heysmallpress.org)!
"From the malignant forces of racism and sexism to corruption and cloning, Boof catwalks her way through a shrewdly satirical, erotic, and suspenseful novel of defiance."
--Booklist
"Boof spins surrealism, sci-fi, racial politics, feminism, religious debate, postcolonial theory, and more into a thought-provoking, suspenseful novel that manages to keep intriguing characters afloat in a roiling sea of crazy rhetoric."
--Publishers Weekly
"The most jubilant celebration of black African beauty so far seen in the English language."
--Madison Smartt Bell, Boston Globe
Following in the footsteps of her idols Alice Walker and Toni Morrison, Kola Boof asserts her own literary prowess with a chilling sociopolitical love story.
Set in modern West Africa, Europe, and the United States, and featuring the kind of heroine readers rarely get to...
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