Jesus Boy

This novel is not for everybody. The satire is sharp and the wit is downright wicked. Fans of Percival Everett will rejoice. I appreciated the bold plot and the complicated POV. I read the entire book on a six hour flight.......more

May 6, 2010 The Ecstasy and the Ecstasy By JULIA SCHEERES JESUS BOY By Preston L. Allen 368 pp. Akashic Books. Paper, $15.95 What is it about church that is so damn sexy? The question has bugged me for a long time. An erotic current runs just below the displays of rectitude and purity, despite the hard pe......more

I did not expect to like this book. I figured that it was a comic and satirical novel of the fervently religious. Making fun of fundamental religion is usually as easy as shooting fish in a barrel and only half as much fun. But the book while all about the overtly religious and in particular a young......more

In the Days of Thy Youth “Jesus Boy” is basically is a tragedy in the vein of Shakespearean form. It is about Elwyn and the loss of innocence and the attempt to apply biblical principles to circumstances without understanding of conviction or the fallacies of human nature. Immaturity, spirituality a......more