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God Says No

by James Hannaham
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A Lambda Award Finalist: a black gay man struggles with his marriage, faith, and desires in this "tender, funny tour of a mind struggling to do the right thing" (Steve Martin).
Gary Gray marries his first girlfriend, a fellow student from Central Florida Christian College who loves Disney World as much as he does. They are nineteen, God-fearing, and eager to start a family. But a week before their wedding Gary goes into a rest-stop bathroom and lets something happen.
God Says No is his testimony—the story of a young black Christian struggling with desire and belief, with his love for his wife and his appetite for other men, told in a singular, emotional voice. Driven by desperation and religious visions, the path that Gary takes—from revival meetings to out life in Atlanta to a pray-away-the-gay ministry in Memphis, Tennessee—gives a riveting picture of how a life like his can be lived, and how it can't.
A Stonewall Book Award Pick 2010
Finalist for the 2009 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Debut Fiction
"A revelatory and sympathetic guide to a misunderstood world." —Steve Martin, author of Shopgirl and Born Standing Up
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Publisher: Grove Atlantic
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Kindle Book

  • Release date: June 8, 2010

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  • ISBN: 9780802196309
  • Release date: June 8, 2010

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  • ISBN: 9780802196309
  • File size: 2797 KB
  • Release date: June 8, 2010

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Fiction African American Fiction Literature LGBTQIA+ (Fiction)

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English

A Lambda Award Finalist: a black gay man struggles with his marriage, faith, and desires in this "tender, funny tour of a mind struggling to do the right thing" (Steve Martin).
Gary Gray marries his first girlfriend, a fellow student from Central Florida Christian College who loves Disney World as much as he does. They are nineteen, God-fearing, and eager to start a family. But a week before their wedding Gary goes into a rest-stop bathroom and lets something happen.
God Says No is his testimony—the story of a young black Christian struggling with desire and belief, with his love for his wife and his appetite for other men, told in a singular, emotional voice. Driven by desperation and religious visions, the path that Gary takes—from revival meetings to out life in Atlanta to a pray-away-the-gay ministry in Memphis, Tennessee—gives a riveting picture of how a life like his can be lived, and how it can't.
A Stonewall Book Award Pick 2010
Finalist for the 2009 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Debut Fiction
"A revelatory and sympathetic guide to a misunderstood world." —Steve Martin, author of Shopgirl and Born Standing Up
Expand title description text
Fiction African American Fiction Literature LGBTQIA+ (Fiction)