Jesus Boy

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Into an austere community of Christian believers come a star-crossed Romeo and Juliet. In the world of Jesus Boy, Romeo is 16-year-old Elwyn Parker, a devout and sincere piano prodigy who soon learns that the saintly girl he has a crush on is pregnant and due to wed another. Juliet is a beautiful widow, Sister Morrisohn, aged 42, who ends up in the arms of Elwyn. Despite the problems posed by their age difference and strict religious beliefs, Elwyn and Sister Morrisohn share a true love. Jesus Boy is a powerful work exposing with wit and poignancy the dark secrets of the pious.

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Heartfelt and occasionally hilarious, Jesus Boy is a tender masterpiece.
--Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River and The Given Day

Jesus Boy is one of those books that makes you sit up and go...WHAT No novel should be this enthralling. With a mesmerizing style, Preston L. Allen offers sentences that you reread because of their sheer enchantment and sense of wonder they invoke...in magical prose that lights up the pages. This is a novel unlike any I've ever read and among the very best of the decade. What a joy to read a book you can truly call a contemporary classic.
--Ken Bruen, author of Sanctuary and The Guards

Author Bio

Preston L. Allen is a recipient of a State of Florida Individual Artist Fellowship and author of the thriller Hoochie Mama, as well as the collection Churchboys and Other Sinners. His stories have appeared in numerous magazines and journals and have been anthologized in Brown Sugar (Plume Penguin 2001) and Miami Noir (Akashic 2006). He lives in South Florida.