The Jugheads

by Helton, J. R.

• ISBN13: 9781609805838
• ISBN10: 1609805836
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2014-10-21
• Publisher: Seven Stories Press

Summary

East Texas in the 1960s is not the worst place to have grown up, but for narrator Jake of The Jugheads, it was a minefield. Describing clearly and courageously first jobs and first kisses, family vacations and family fights, Jake takes us through a wild ride of a coming of age, in an ordinary American family that he believes is as violent and dysfunctional as they come. By turns hilarious and moving, The Jugheads is a compelling return to form for a master of the underside of the American psyche.

Author Biography

J. R. HELTON's first novel Drugs, a modern homage to William S. Burrough’s classic Junky, introduced the world to his wry writing and unique genre of fictionalized memoir. A professor of writing at the collegiate level, Helton has also published two memoirs and a number of short stories—for one of which he won an Honorable Mention Pushcart Prize—and poems in such literary magazines as The Sun, The Missouri Review, and Mineshaft. He lives, writes, and teaches in Texas.