The Icing...
I recently received a sad Facebook text from an ex-student. He was feeling as though his creative spirit were being crushed by a society...
LADYSMITH
JIMMY KOCH IS BORN INTO A WORLD THAT DOESN'T SEEM TO WANT HIM. EARLY ON, HE'S BRUTALLY BULLIED BY AN OLDER BROTHER AND A COMPLICIT SISTER. HIS EARLIEST RECOLLECTION IS BEING TOLD BY HIS SIBLINGS THAT HE IS NOT HUMAN—HE'S A MONKEY THAT WAS ADOPTED FROM A ZOO.
UNPROTECTED BY A MOTHER, WHO SPENDS MUCH OF HER TIME READING ROMANCE NOVELS, AND A FATHER THAT BURIES HIMSELF IN WORK TO AVOID CONFLICT, JIMMY LEARNS TO SURVIVE ON HIS OWN.
AFTER FINDING A HANDGUN IN HIS GRANDFATHER'S STORAGE SHED, HE IS CONFRONTED WITH POSSIBILITIES THAT HE'S MUCH TOO YOUNG TO PROCESS.
LADYSMITH JOURNEYS INTO A DYSFUNCTIONAL WORLD, FILLED WITH POTHOLES.
A FOLLOWUP TO THE AUTHOR'S NOVEL, MEADOWLAND, THIS FUNNY, IRREVERENT, HEARTBREAKING, THOUGHT PROVOKING FOLLOWUP WILL LEAVE YOU GASPING.