Blackchurch Furnace

Blackchurch is not the sort of place where folks are inclined to be up in each others business and strange house guests at a neighbors pad are not likely to be noticed let alone remarked upon. So on a day in early October when two beat-up-looking crackers a pregnant teenage whore and a small androgynous Japanese woman in a large-brimmed sombrero sunglasses and wrapped in a patchwork down comforter came to call on Dantre Philips with heads full of prophetic visions and tales of the apocalypse already in progress nary an eye was blinked. When the end times do come to Blackchurch itll be a day like any other day. And the next day will be too.Blackchurch Furnace is a scathing satire of faith family and all that we hold dear where the only thing you can believe in are the voices in your own head...and they are every bit as crazy as you are.Praise for BLACKCHURCH FURNACE: Blackchurch Furnace is one of the most amazing books Ive ever read. It reads like an underworld testament groaning with ghost histories clanking and burning with all the shuffling grandeur of its subject Cincinnati. Its haunting its furious its beautiful its a book only Nathan Singer could have written. Hes the kind of writer wholl just destroy you in all the right ways.--Benjamin Whitmer author of Pike and Cry FatherSimilar to author Victor LaValle (The Ecstatic Slapboxing with Jesus and Big Machine) Nathan Singer is an urban wordsmith that blisters the pages with a language only he can scribe. Blackchurch Furnace is an apocalyptic head-scratching mystery laced with hip-hop Louisiana metal 9-11 Afghanistan and Iraq. Characters scour to LA and back to where the story is rooted amongst the struggling class of Ohio with Gothic saviors saints and prophets searching to redefine what was once moral and just. This book is loud comical witty and comes with a soprano-shriek that screams read me!--Frank Bill author of Crimes in Southern Indiana and DonnybrookReading Nathan Singers Blackchurch Furnace is like coming across a lost book of the Bible equal parts profound and profane. Singers work has beauty and brutality in a balance no other writer can match. Blackchurch Furnace is a brilliant story of loss and struggle pushed by an unrelenting momentum and characters of such power such precision that their impact will leave a sacred mark on the devout reader.--Steve Weddle author of Country HardballBlackchurch Furnace is a relentless visceral and black-humored ride through Americas alternately pious and depraved id. It turns a keen and tender eye to bars churches porn mansions and boiler rooms. Singer has managed a finger-trap of a story that weaves together realism and apocalypse heavy metal and childrens books redemption and the lack thereof.--Tyler McMahon author of How the Mistakes Were Made