Publisher's Synopsis
An old African American grandmother tries to instill spiritual values in her willful naïve granddaughter before she dies, but Sugar would need more than old wives' tales for her Gen-X, dirty-south world, she would need faith of her own."Badass Christian" follows Sugar and her life as a girl adopted at birth into a provincial Southern black religious family. Developing an identity that is flawed with hypocrisy due to observing and duplicating the behavior of the adults around her, Sugar finds herself withdrawing from her religious upbringing. However, when she connects with Reverend Bebo, the local preacher whose fall from grace coincides with her spiritual crisis, the two of them embark on a journey of love they had no business beginning in the first place.Told through eyes of a lifelong guru of the pew, "Badass Christian" works to peel back the curtain of small-town Protestantism while allowing readers to hear the voices of actual church congregants in a time when the plight of Christian leadership is frequently in the news.Covering a wide range of emotions while presenting readers with a bit of Biblical wisdom, Alexander works to entertain readers while showing them that the grace of God is sufficient for a self-proclaimed "Badass Christian."
