As Debate About 'The N-Word' and Hip-Hop Continues, a New Novel is Released
The new novel "Lit Up" includes an unapologetic look at the divisive "N-Word," mixed with seminal passages of unfiltered street life that stirs heated discussions at places of work, on college campuses, on half-court on the asphalt, and perhaps most surprisingly, at churches and places of worship.
Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) November 15, 2007 -- The new novel "Lit Up" (http://www.darkstreetlit.com) by Clymel E. Thomas aims to show that a novel can graphically depict life on the streets of America while managing to bring readers closer to God in the end.
"Sometimes the only way to preach to an audience is not to preach," said Thomas. "I cannot imagine a pastor doing a sermon and being as brutally honest as some parts of 'Lit Up' are; but maybe he should be. If a speaker hides a single element of the darkness--for example, pretends the 'N-word' does not exist, or pretends young men and women are not out having risky sex, or pretends violence should be sanitized, then the speaker's entire message tends to ring false--including the all important 'hope part' and it can waste the audience's time. Some of the images contained in 'Lit Up' are cruel, while others are exciting and some are deplorable--but all are necessary."
Even more necessary, continued the author, is the need for a dark situation to get lit up, pun intended. "I think that if a preacher and a so-called gangster rapper ever had got into a room together, argued, debated and eventually hashed out a novel amongst themselves, it might have read a lot like 'Lit Up' does."
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