Hearing Voices: A Study in Fatherlessness for Pastors and Counselors

It is rare to find a book that ventures beyond the actual story and speaks on a personal, academic, and spiritual level. In Nathan Lewis much-anticipated memoir, Hearing Voices, pastors and counselors are sure to come away with much more than just a sense of Lewis life. Pastors and counselors are sure to learn more about the effects of single parent homes and solutions for handling delicate family issues. Lewis was encouraged to put his life onto paper for the benefit of other fatherless children, and after working on the book for seven years, he is finally able to publish his story.

(PRWEB) June 10, 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, pastors, counselors, God, and the voices 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. Lessons the author leaned in youth from is pastor are referenced throughout the book. In detail Lewis shows how the relationship with counselors helped in through tough times in his life. 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 that is valuable to counselors, pastors and all those in mentorship positions with fatherless boys.
   
From 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. To receive a review copy or schedule an interview, please CONTACT: Fingerprint Press, PO Box 278075 Sacramento, CA 95827, info@fingerprintpress.com, 877-807-4509. Pastors and counselors are encouraged to request review copies while they are available.

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.

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