Let It Be Real, a novel
Let It Be Real is the sequel to R. Bryant Smith's When the Children Get Together. Many of the questions are answered in this novel. Melvin James and friends Bradley, Xavier, Desmond, Howard and others are joined by new characters in this riviting novel. Still written in the same tone as When the Children Get Together, Smith takes you on anothe journey as the group grows older and begins to experience life, love, and continued friendship that endures strain.
Reviews:
R. Bryant Smith has given our community a novel that radiates Southern charm, chronicles the lives of friends and guides us through a furtive journey into the hearts of those who were touched by the life and (more importantly) death of one of their own.
This story is told with wit, candor, laced with suspense as Smith weaves a tale of how a small town and a cadre of friends grow hometown. The voice is hauntingly famliar as it calls the reader to examine his or her own relationships by the mystice rubric of unconditional love.
Alaric W. Blair, author
The End of Innocence: A Journey Into the Life
In Fairhaven, Tennessee, there are few choices for black gay men but they are epic and sweeping in their consequence: There is a lied life and there is a lived life. You are a witness or something to be witnessed. In the south of R. Bryant Smith's novel Let It Be Real, you can be a queen, educated, light or dark black, you a surely corn fed and you can be a king. You are an ingredient, sgar orlemon in his story, this sweet tea. Mr. Smith's most elegant entrance into the literary world is a fron porch invitation extended to you to sit a spell and sip a while. You will not leave his presence, these men, this story, this meal unchanged nor unsatisfied.
Marvin K. White, author
Last Rights
Nothin' Ugly Fly
A powerful meditation on friendship. sexualit, and masculinity. R. Bryant Smith is a modern author who has found his voice.
Dr. Rudolph Byrd, author
Traps: African American Men on Gender and Sexuality
Essentials
The author captures the thick, rich complexities of religious faith, violence, death, friendship, and the comedic character of black gay life that balances the all too tragic realities of homophobia and violence in black communities. The book reminds us all that an injusticce to one of us is an injustice to all of us despite ouyr personal achievements.
Dr.Victor Anderson, author
Beyond Ontological Blackness
Pragmatic Theology
Creative Exchange
Reviews:
R. Bryant Smith has given our community a novel that radiates Southern charm, chronicles the lives of friends and guides us through a furtive journey into the hearts of those who were touched by the life and (more importantly) death of one of their own.
This story is told with wit, candor, laced with suspense as Smith weaves a tale of how a small town and a cadre of friends grow hometown. The voice is hauntingly famliar as it calls the reader to examine his or her own relationships by the mystice rubric of unconditional love.
Alaric W. Blair, author
The End of Innocence: A Journey Into the Life
In Fairhaven, Tennessee, there are few choices for black gay men but they are epic and sweeping in their consequence: There is a lied life and there is a lived life. You are a witness or something to be witnessed. In the south of R. Bryant Smith's novel Let It Be Real, you can be a queen, educated, light or dark black, you a surely corn fed and you can be a king. You are an ingredient, sgar orlemon in his story, this sweet tea. Mr. Smith's most elegant entrance into the literary world is a fron porch invitation extended to you to sit a spell and sip a while. You will not leave his presence, these men, this story, this meal unchanged nor unsatisfied.
Marvin K. White, author
Last Rights
Nothin' Ugly Fly
A powerful meditation on friendship. sexualit, and masculinity. R. Bryant Smith is a modern author who has found his voice.
Dr. Rudolph Byrd, author
Traps: African American Men on Gender and Sexuality
Essentials
The author captures the thick, rich complexities of religious faith, violence, death, friendship, and the comedic character of black gay life that balances the all too tragic realities of homophobia and violence in black communities. The book reminds us all that an injusticce to one of us is an injustice to all of us despite ouyr personal achievements.
Dr.Victor Anderson, author
Beyond Ontological Blackness
Pragmatic Theology
Creative Exchange
