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THE JUGHEADS
East Texas in the nineteen-sixties is not the worst place to have grown up, but for narrator Jake, it was a minefield.
Describing first jobs and first kisses, family vacations and family fights with unusual clarity and courage, Jake takes us through a wild ride of a coming of age, in an Ordinary American Family that is as violent and dysfunctional as they come. Despite his upwardly-mobile, working class father Richard's draconian rule over the household, Jake manages to grow into his gifts as an artist and an athlete. But when Richard uproots the family to realize out his dream of living off the land, the realities of their fragile existence become too obvious to ignore.
By turns hilarious and shocking, The Jugheads is a compelling return to form for a master of the underside of the American psyche.
J. R. Helton has been writing for thirty years. He has published a number of short stories, as well as the memoirs Below the Line and Man and Beast.
Describing first jobs and first kisses, family vacations and family fights with unusual clarity and courage, Jake takes us through a wild ride of a coming of age, in an Ordinary American Family that is as violent and dysfunctional as they come. Despite his upwardly-mobile, working class father Richard's draconian rule over the household, Jake manages to grow into his gifts as an artist and an athlete. But when Richard uproots the family to realize out his dream of living off the land, the realities of their fragile existence become too obvious to ignore.
By turns hilarious and shocking, The Jugheads is a compelling return to form for a master of the underside of the American psyche.
J. R. Helton has been writing for thirty years. He has published a number of short stories, as well as the memoirs Below the Line and Man and Beast.
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Published 2014-10-01 by Seven Stories Press |