Doug Brendel

Praying for Mrs. Mombasa Doug Brendel

CRITICS RAVE about Praying for Mrs. Mombasa: "A Monty Python-worthy assault on racism, sexism, prejudice of all kinds, and pigs." -Undermining Husbandry "A strange and wonderful new look at the power of hope, with the emphasis on strange." -Crooked Horizons journal "Deliciously iconoclastic, laugh-out-loud funny, and largely inscrutable." -ScrutabilityCheck.com "Hilarious, irreverent, and fortunately not too long." -Contemporary Literature Monitor "Shocking, thought-provoking, and fortunately not too long." -MonitoringLiterature.com "I was thinking, 'This book is slapstick' - until the book itself told me it was slapstick, at which point I knew I would have to come up with a different description; which is how I settled on 'rollicking religion comedy.'" -Arthur Trimpker "No one seems to have told this writer that sex and Scandinavia do not mix." -Norway Norms "Outrageously innovative, unique, fresh. But can somebody please explain the part about the ceiling mirror?" -Quentin Presto newsletter "Praying for Mrs. Mombasa may set back the very idea of the novel by a century or more. But it's so fun!" -Perish the Thought magazine "Probing, provocative, innovative. Also occasionally inappropriate. Well, more than occasionally." -LitAssessment.com "Thank heaven it's not a play." -BroadwayAnomalies.com "Theologically ludicrous yet strangely true." -Any Should Perish magazine