


The Psalms of Israel Jones is the story of a father and son’s journey towards spiritual redemption. The plot is straight out of On the Road.”Ĭlint McCown, author of Haints, War Memorials, and The Member-Guest calls it “A deep, dark look at the sometimes fatal wounds that separate parent from child, husband from wife, and body from soul.” Abbott, author of Dreams of Distant Lives and Strangers in Paradise says “I love this book, not least for the zillion writers and religious thinkers I find in it, among them Dickens, Melville, Jonathan Edwards, Increase Mather, Jimmy Swaggart, and Walker Percy. West Virginia University Press is publishing a novel on the divide between a preacher son and his rocker father in The Psalms of Israel Jones by Ed Davis.
