The Sexy Part of the Bible (Akashic Urban Surreal Series)

Buying The Sexy Part of the Bible (Akashic Urban Surreal Series). 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 GlobeFollowing 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 encounter in popular culture—beautiful charcoal-skinned Eternity, a spirited and diabolical young African hellcat whose life is stigmatized by a heart-stopping secret—The Sexy Part of the Bible is an erotically astute novel filled with mystery and adventure.Enveloped in the arms of a domineering Fela Kuti–type rap star and revolutionary named Sea Horse Twee, Eternity finds herself miraculously surviving several African rebellions—and in the interim, she powerfully unmasks the science of cloning, which becomes a powerful metaphor in the story.Kola Boof is the author of several novels and poetry collections, including Flesh and the Devil and Nile River Woman The Sexy Part of the Bible (Akashic Urban Surreal Series) Her writing has appeared in Harper's and the story collection Politically Inspired Her autobiography, Diary of a Lost Girl, was published in 2006 ... Learn more »

The Sexy Part of the Bible (Akashic Urban Surreal Series) Review: The Sexy Part of the Bible (Akashic Urban Surreal Series). 10 STARS!!!Great Writing like Toni MorrisonOff the chain!"The Sexy Part of the Bible"I read this book in one day it's way too short! In fact I'm depressed thatit's over. I haven't read anything this amazing in a long long time and yesI'm a Kola Boof fan. But this is better than all her other ones.Eternity is a young pure black African girl with a secret. She's raised by White parents who are Scientists and she has a fear of dolls. The mother is a Tranny and the dad thinks he's ... Read more »

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