![]() ![]() Each time, however, he discovers that there is no escaping the unruly imperatives of his self and the confines of his deeply eccentric family. Sex, substance abuse, speech team, fly fishing, honest work, even Mormonism Justin throws himself into each pursuit with a hyperactive energy that even his daily Ritalin dose does little to blunt. Then a course of hypnosis seemingly does the trick, but true to the conservation of neurotic energy, the problem doesn’t so much disappear as relocate. For years, no remedy not orthodontia, not the escalating threats of his father, Mike, a washed out linebacker turned sporting goods entrepreneur, not the noxious cayenne pepper based Suk No Mor can cure Justin’s thumbsucking habit. Meet Justin Cobb, ‘the King Kong of oral obsessives’ as his dentist dubs him and the most appealingly bright and screwed up fictional adolescent since Holden Caulfield donned his hunter’s cap. This eighties centric, Ritalin fueled, pitch perfect comic novel by a writer to watch brings energy and originality to the classic Midwestern coming of age story. ![]()
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