A Portrait of Southern Sexual Repression

A Portrait of Southern Sexual Repression

Dominion, a fictional town in the Mississippi Delta, is shot through with Black church culture and an outsize reverence for high-school football. At the turn of the millennium, it is a community in which sexuality flourishes despite, or perhaps because of, efforts to suppress it. Addie E. Citchens’s debut novel, which takes its setting as its title, follows two women yoked together by their love for a teenager named Emanuel, who more commonly go…