Read this book immediately if you like truth, drugs, generation gaps, guitars, and lifelong quests for freedom and kicks.
--Craig Finn, The Hold Steady .
Thomas Ransom, born to a severely dysfunctional southern family transplanted to New York City, is left to his own devices by neglectful parents, and spends his childhood shadowing his criminally-inclined half-brother and roaming the city with hard-drinking teenage pals.
He eventually finds an outlet as the flamboyant singer of a .
