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The Angels Came to Sodom in the Evening

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A novel that dares to take on some of the fiercest forces of our times - ones that use Biblical language to cast minorities as evil.Rory's life is built on secrets—from his childhood playing a Crus...
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  • 06 October 2026
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A novel that dares to take on some of the fiercest forces of our times - ones that use Biblical language to cast minorities as evil.

Rory's life is built on secrets—from his childhood playing a Crusader in the vanishing woods of Memphis, through his passionate, hidden bond with his friend Drew, to his eventual life as a prominent megachurch pastor.

When his carefully constructed world begins to collapse, Rory embarks on a reckoning that takes him from the pulpit to underground queer spaces, from respectability to radical honesty. 

The Angels Came to Sodom in the Evening is an audacious exploration of desire, faith, and the price of living authentically in a world that demands conformity. 

With echoes of Flannery O'Connor and James Baldwin, Paul Russell crafts a devastating portrait of American masculinity, religious hypocrisy, and the liberating power of embracing one's true self—no matter the cost.

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Price: $30.00
Publisher: Barbican Press
Imprint: Barbican Press
Publication Date: 06 October 2026
ISBN: 9781917352161
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: FICTION / LGBTQ+ / Gay, Family life fiction / Stories about family, FICTION / Religious, FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Family Life / Multigenerational, FICTION / Gothic, Religious & spiritual fiction
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Praise for Paul Russell's novels:

The Coming Storm takes off from a sensational subject to arrive at unexpected heights and subtleties. It’s both unsettling and touching… well-nigh flawless.”—The Washington Post

“If Tennessee Williams were young today and a Yankee, The Salt Point is the novel he might have written. It finds the sacred and poetic even in the slag heap of small-town America.” — Edmund White

Boys of Life is simply great writing — risky, honest, horrifying and insightful…. A forthright vision of love’s darkest possibilities.” — Dorothy Allison