WHEN SUNDAY ISN’T ENOUGH: LEVAR “RAMZIE” KEMP UNLEASHES A GROUNDBREAKING DEBUT TRILOGY
In his powerful debut novel, When Sunday Isn’t Enough, author and Snubb3d Magazine Editor-in-Chief Levar “Ramzie” Kemp steps boldly into the literary world with a story that refuses to whisper. Instead, it roars — with truth, with pain, with resilience, and with a love that claws its way toward the light.
Part one of an emotional, sweeping trilogy, the novel follows Levi Langford and Micah Williams, two African American pastor’s kids raised within the rigid expectations of the Black church. Their worlds collide at Ramzie University, a fictional elite HBCU where legacy, culture, and identity breathe from every brick. What begins as quiet understanding between two wounded souls grows into a secret love — tender, complicated, and deeply human.
But in the shadows of tradition and silence, even the brightest love strains to survive. Betrayal fractures what they built. Distance widens. And when Micah unexpectedly walks back into Levi’s home church months later, old demons awaken. Trauma long buried rises to the surface. The congregation erupts into conflict. Families splinter. Faith is challenged. And Levi and Micah are forced to confront not only each other, but the generational wounds that shaped them both.
This is a trilogy not about perfection, but about truth.
Not about polished testimonies, but about the testimonies we’re afraid to tell.
Not about the Sunday morning performance — but what happens when Sunday ends, and silence begins choking everything left unspoken.
A PREFACE THAT SPEAKS FOR A GENERATION
Ramzie’s preface reads like scripture for the unseen. He writes of sanctuaries that save and sanctuaries that scar. Of children who learned to perform strength while drowning quietly. Of queer Black boys who prayed their feelings away because no one ever told them God loved them exactly as they were.
He writes:
“This book is a testimony wrapped in fiction… a mirror held up to the lives of those who had to become their own sanctuary when the church pushed them out of the one they were born into.”
And later:
“Sometimes faith is not the problem — the silence is.
Sometimes love is not the sin — fear is.
And sometimes… Sunday just isn’t enough.”
It is this unfiltered honesty that makes When Sunday Isn’t Enough not just a novel —
but a movement,
a balm,
a mirror,
and a challenge.
A LOVE STORY, BUT ALSO A REVELATION
Levi and Micah’s relationship is the heartbeat of the book, but their romance is only the beginning. Through their eyes, Ramzie explores:
- the unspoken rules inside Black church culture
- the pressure placed on pastor’s kids
- the generational legacy of shame and silence
- the politics of the pulpit
- the cost of authenticity in spaces that reward hiding
- the journey toward healing that doesn’t happen overnight
This is a novel about two boys, yes — but also about families, congregations, history, hope, and the kind of love that refuses to die even when everything around it tries to bury it.
A DEDICATION THAT HOLDS YOU LIKE A PRAYER
Ramzie dedicates the book:
“To the pastor’s kids… the choir kids… every LGBTQ soul raised under stained glass ceilings.
Your story matters.
Your love matters.
And God has never once stopped seeing you.”
It is not just a dedication — it is an altar.
WHEN SUNDAY ISN’T ENOUGH IS MORE THAN A BOOK — IT’S HEALING WORK
This debut marks a new, bold voice in queer Black literature.
A voice that refuses to sanitize pain.
A voice that insists on complex, truthful love.
A voice that knows that healing isn’t instant… but it’s possible.
And for readers who have ever felt unseen in church, in family, or in love —
this book says, “I see you.”
READ THE NOVEL THAT’S ALREADY CHANGING LIVES
When Sunday Isn’t Enough
By Levar “Ramzie” Kemp
Available now in paperback, hardcopy and Kindle:
https://www.amazon.com/When-Sunday-Enough-Levar-Ramzie/dp/B0G4KC65JL
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