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Every Boy Should Have a Man reviewed in The Chicago Tribune!
Preston L. Allen’s Every Boy Should Have a Man received a glowing review in the Chicago Tribune!
From the review:
“In Every Boy Should Have a Man, Allen takes genre bending into unexplored territory. He has crafted a highly imaginative, unsettling work of social satire that . . . utilizes a speculative fable as a way to muse on race, slavery, civil rights and even climate change.
. . . Every Boy Should Have a Man is James Baldwin meets Aldous Huxley, a twisted contortion of a weird fairy tale future gone wrong, all told from high atop the mountain in a sort of New Testament prose. As the mixologist of this mad and unpredictable genre tableau, Allen has navigated into wholly uncharted territory. He comments on everything from slave ownership to pet ownership to the way we treat our planet and ourselves. His novel is ambitious yet understated, cautionary while rarely politically preachy. Every Boy Should Have a Man is that rare novel that is derived from such a disparate scope of literary influences that it waxes entirely original.”
Read the full review here.
Read the first chapter here.
Buy the book here.
Posted: Jun 19, 2013
Category: News | Tags: Chicago Tribune, Every Boy Should Have a Man, Preston L. Allen