Badbadbad
"An exhilarating and frightening book, badbadbad is about the laying of hands--to heal, to arouse, to end--a weird, funny, fucked-up love letter of love and violence from a Son to a son. Jesús Ángel García's protagonist was made in the likeness of God, and God is an animal."  --Lindsay Hunter, author ofDaddy's"A dark, erotic and fun adventure... a momentum-gaining rollercoaster of faith and desire which spirals into the most entertaining kind of destruction."--Jon Reiss (Vol. 1 Brooklyn)"Jesus Angel Garcia blows religion up blimp-size and lights taboos like Molotov cocktails tossed on a manicured, Christian lawn in his biblical, technologically charged landscape.... bursting at the seams with fascinating women who are outrageous in their demands and crackling with desire."--Antonia Crane (The Rumpus)"The prose is as razor sharp as you'd expect in old hardboiled paperbacks....badbadbad, however, isn't a pulp novel, but a taut psychological examination, a blueprint into madness... shot through with this idea of covertness, of hidden layers, of people masquerading as things they're not."--Nik Korpon (Electric Literature's The Outlet)"Garcia is a vigorous and hugely talented writer... [who] aims to unsettle your assumptions about class, about gender, about sex, about religion, about identity: in short, about yourself, and what it means to be human in an inhuman world."--James Greer (North of Onhava)"badbadbad is a strange, off-trail romp through a Deep South inhabited by Born Again preachers and twisted badbadbad girls. The ghosts of Elmer Gantry and Chester Himes haunt this hip-hop vision of the new South." --Jonathan Woods, author of Bad Juju"Jesús Ángel García has given us a story that not only mimics but answers our manic, semi-virtual lives and the question of how to redeem ourselves: a rollicking, sexy, razor-witted romp with heart." --Melissa Febos, author of Whip Smart"badbadbad is a blasphemous literary adventure. Jesús Ángel García is more than a powerful new voice of our generation; his cult is bent on taking over heaven and earth." --Tony DuShane, author of Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk"Jesús Ángel García successfully merges the pulpy feel of those old-fashioned gas station novels with something as dark and surreal as a David Lynch film." --Michael Seidlinger, author of The Day We Delay"If Philip Roth and Flannery O'Connor had a disinherited love child who worked simultaneously for Jimmy Swaggart and The Advocate, he might grow up to write a novel like Jesús Ángel García's badbadbad."  --Kyle Minor, author of In the Devil's Territory