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"Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, Black Jesus and Other Superheroes chronicles ordinary people achieving vivid extrasensory perception while under extreme pain. The stories tumble into a universe of the jaded and the hopeful, in which men and women burdened with unwieldy and undesirable superhuman abilities are nonetheless resilient in subtle and startling ways. Venita Blackburn's characters hurl themselves toward the inevitable fates they might rather wish away. Their stories play with magic without the sparkle, glaring at the internal machinations of the human spirit. Fragile symbols for things such as race, sexuality, and love are lifted, decorated, and exposed to scrutiny and awe like so many ruins of our imagination. Through it all Blackburn's characters stumblealong currents of language both thoughtful and hilarious."-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Here are a few of the one-liners in the book:
“Big uncle’s obsession with the apocalypse wasn’t about how the world stops, but how it starts again.”
“Pastor Short had a degree in dark spirits. Pastor Short was the dark spirit whisperer.”
“The two passed by the pair of bouncers like ladybugs over elephants.”
“Most whores had honor, but the average crack-whore will rob you blind and blow your Rottweiler for a five dollar fix.”
There are more. I promise.
This was a review copy provided by NetGalley given for an honest review ( )