{"product_id":"god-says-no-paperback","title":"God Says No - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJames Hannaham\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGary 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. \u003ci\u003eGod Says No\u003c\/i\u003e 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 Gray takes--from revival meetings to out life in Atlanta to a prayaway-the-gay ministry in Memphis, Tennessee--gives a riveting picture of how a life like his can be lived, and how it can't.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A tender, funny tour of a mind struggling to do the right thing. A\u003cbr\u003erevelatory and sympathetic guide to a misunderstood world.\" \u003cbr\u003e--Steve Martin, author of \"Shopgirl\" and \"Born Standing Up\" \u003cbr\u003e\"James Hannaham's GOD SAYS NO introduces a groundbreaking new American\u003cbr\u003evoice: a writer of spectacular sentences who has trained his sights on a\u003cbr\u003eworld that has hardly been touched by literary fiction. Topical and\u003cbr\u003eambitious, disturbing and hilarious, GOD SAYS NO is everything a person\u003cbr\u003ecould ask of a first novel -- and twice that much. \" \u003cbr\u003e--Jennifer Egan, author of \"Look at Me\" and \"The Keep\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This novel is an absolute original. Gary Gray's search for wholeness and\u003cbr\u003eacceptance is a heartfelt (and often very funny) plea for all men (and\u003cbr\u003ewomen) to be embraced just as they are. A wonderful debut.\" \u003cbr\u003e--Martha Southgate, author of \"Third Girl From The Left\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"GOD SAYS NO is a book that was desperate to be written but well out of\u003cbr\u003ereach. And then James Hannaham came along and wrote it, with the kind of\u003cbr\u003ecare, wit, sympathy and fury that the book deserved. Imagine Candide...--\u003cbr\u003eokay, imagine Candide as a black man, a southerner, a Christian\u003cbr\u003efundamentalist, middle-class, obese, married, a father, and utterly, even\u003cbr\u003eprofoundly gay. \u003cbr\u003e If a comedy, in the classical sense, is a story then ends in a\u003cbr\u003emarriage, and a tragedy is a story that ends with a death, then what do you\u003cbr\u003ecall a book that ends with a split and a resurrection? A truly daring first\u003cbr\u003enovel, and something to read.\" \u003cbr\u003e--Jim Lewis, author of \"Why the Tree Loves the Ax\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.83 x 8.28 x 5.52 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 08, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47228826026233,"sku":"9780802144966","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/NjBVR3BiS2psb0IwQUw5NUxlczkxQT09.webp?v=1768296406","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/god-says-no-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}