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 of Daddy'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)

When his wife inexplicably flees from home with their infant son, Jesús Ángel García struggles to redefine himself by being of service on both sides of the Southern cultural divide. By day, he works as the humble, God-fearing webmaster for First Church of the Church Before Church. At night, he plays the part of sexual messiah on fallenangels, an online social network for extreme desires. Blinded by righteousness, obsession and identity confusion, Jesús refuses to change his path even as it leads to the greatest of sins.