It is rare to find a book that ventures beyond the actual story and speaks on a personal, academic, and social level. In Nathan Lewis much-anticipated memoir, Hearing Voices, the audience comes away with much more than just a sense of Lewis life. As an author of multiple books and a renowned figure in the underground literature community, Lewis was encouraged to put his life onto paper. After working on the book for seven years, he is finally able to publish this story of the effects of life in a fatherless home.
Sacramento, CA (PRWEB) June 6, 2004 -- Hearing Voices is Lewis journey to become the father he never had as a child. The title of the novel reflects how Lewis sifted through the many voices of his family and friends, God, and the ones inside his head in order to find his way in life as a man and father. The reader experiences Lewis drug abuse, thoughts of suicide, abandonment, and violence. But this is a victory story, and Lewis leaves the book with a sense of liberation and growth from all that is learned. The commentary offered on parenthood speaks to parents and children alike, and provides counsel, as well as support. Hearing Voices also goes one step further and features an appendix of statistics on divorce, fatherless homes, and suicide. The book presents an analytical insight into the effect of fatherless homes on children and society.
Lewis struggled to write this book four times, and in this final version, the audience receives the most seasoned and honest reflection of his life. In the preface to Hearing Voices, Lewis says, It is the version that explains the identity crisis a young fatherless boy endures. It is the version that makes no apology for the voices inside one persons head. In fact, this book embraces those voices because no matter what those voices are saying, they are real."
Hearing Voices has been selected as a pick of the month for May-June by the Small Press Review at www.dustbooks.com.
Reviews have claimed Lewis as a new great voice in African American Poetry and Literature. "Perhaps it's one of the latest and greatest assets to black literature and poetry, a prolific documentation of one black man's experience of becoming the wiser. Just when the world thinks it might not know another great poet, Nathan Lewis emerges profoundly." - Latorial Fasion, author of Secrets of my Soul and Immaculate Perceptions.
The complete preface to Lewis memoir, along with reviews of previous books, can be found at www.nathanlewis.com or fingerprintpress.com.
Hearing Voices: 216 pages, ISBN 0-9711199-3-7, Distribution with Ingram and Baker & Taylor, Release date: July 1, 2004. Pre-order now at online retailers Barnes & Noble and Amazon.com.
To receive a review copy or schedule an interview, please contact: Fingerprint Press
PO Box 278075
Sacramento, CA 95827
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877-807-4509
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