The Church of the Mountain of Flesh

<p><strong style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>With full-page illustrations by the author THE CHURCH OF THE MOUNTAIN OF FLESH is a cosmic horror novel about mad artists bodies spiralling out of control and a trans man's merciless desperation.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>Sole De Gasinis drowns his grief in wine and buries his hatred of his body in twisted sculptures. When one drunken night on the beach God orders him to rebuild his village's church he knows he wasn't chosen for his piety.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>Instead he and God make a deal. If Sole rebuilds the church God will give him the body of a man.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>As Sole works in a frenzy for salvation lifelong friendships decay a village united to tear down its church fractures into pariahs and zealots and power and grief reshape the prophet into a tyrant. Grief for a boy he fell in love with ten years ago who claimed to be a virgin birth who died in agony in the church crypt when the God inside him wanted out--and whose monstrous remnant Sole must commune with for every piece of his prize.</span></p>