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She has a lesson or two to learn after she uses her "relationship with God" to break up a seemingly happy home.<P>Alternately set in Washington, D.C. and Memphis, Tennessee, <I>Fire & Brimstone</i> is an "in your face" tale that explores lesbianism and Black motherhood as both separate and integrated issues impacting the main character's role as a single parent, while opening dialogue on same-sex domestic violence, religious beliefs, bisexuality, negligent fathers, economics, and intra-racial caste systems among African-Americans. 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