Sylvester

First-time novelist John Brincefield explores the family life of Sylvester P. Goode in a story punctuated with scriptural footnotes. Sylvester and his parents are all doing their own thing, dealing with their own issues. He lives with a single mom who is sold out to her church while his long-departed dad has found religion and is preaching in Africa. but despite his strict religious upbringing, Sylvester is known throughout the neighborhood as a womanizer who was drinking his life away.