Rowhouse Hymns

By: Mo Nell, Donnell Casey, Monique Disu

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Rowhouse Hymns

A Novel by Donnell Casey and Monique Disu

In 1995 Philadelphia, the walls of the Richard Allen Projects echo with gospel music, laughter, and the quiet ache of men who carry too much. Brandon Tills is one of them: a husband, a father, and a man trying to hold his world together while the bottle keeps tearing it apart.

By day, Brandon fights to be the man his family deserves. By night, he wrestles with his reflection, guilt, addiction, and the memories of what he used to be. His wife Denise, loves him fiercely but grows tired of loving him alone. Their niece Imani, wise beyond her years, watches in silence as the people she loves most drift further apart.

As the pressures of poverty, pride, and pain close in, one man’s struggle to change will test the meaning of love, forgiveness, and faith in the places that need it most.

Rowhouse Hymns is a raw, deeply moving portrait of Black fatherhood, manhood, and redemption. Told through moments both tender and tragic, it asks a question too many men are afraid to speak aloud: What happens when strength is no longer enough to keep you standing?

This is not just a story about addiction, love, and faith.
It’s a hymn for every man who’s ever been told to stay silent and for every family that kept singing anyway.