The Unmentionable Mann

The Unmentionable Mann explores the intersection of racism, homophobia, religion, conversion therapy, and classism through the lens of an inbredaristocratic family. The strange, secret philosophy that has ruled the prominent Mann Family for generations has culminated in a crime so great that only a journey into the heart of self-immolation could promise redemption.

IN THE PRESS

  • "His keen insights into the many neuroses of gay male urban culture invite the reader to reflect on its darker aspects, the things we instinctively cover up to appear respectable in the eyes of heterosexual society."

    Huffington Post

  • "Many explanations have been offered for the persistence of the US drug war. Racism, some point out: early prohibitions against opium and cannabis were thinly-veiled attacks against immigrants from China and Mexico; and in the wake of civil rights reforms which aimed to improve the lot of African Americans, the drug war became the new Jim Crow. Others point to greedy corporate interests which targeted cannabis to protect their ill-gotten gains from petrochemicals, paper and pharmaceuticals."

    The Leaf