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Growing Up Dead in Texas

By: Stephen Graham Jones
Narrated by: Joey Collins
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It was a fire that could be seen for miles, a fire that split the community, a fire that turned families on each other, a fire that it's still hard to get a straight answer about.

A quarter of a century ago, someone held a match to Greenwood, Texas's cotton. Stephen Graham Jones was 12 that year. What he remembers best, what's stuck with him all this time, is that nobody ever came forward to claim that destruction. And nobody was ever caught. Greenwood just leaned forward into next year’s work, and the year after that, pretending that the fire had never happened. But it had. This fire, it didn't start 25 years ago. It had been smoldering for years by then. And everybody knew it. Getting them to say anything about it's another thing, though.

Now Stephen's going back. His first time back since he graduated high school, and maybe his last. For answers, for closure, for the people who can’t go back. For the ones who never got to leave.

©2012 Stephen Graham Jones (P)2012 Recorded Books
Biographical Fiction Biographies & Memoirs Fiction Literary Fiction
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Part Memoir, part mystery, non linear and very SGJ

Part Memoir, part mystery, is a novel but also not. We traverse through the town of Greenwood and the lives and secrets of its inhabitants jumping around people, and time.
This isn't a straight A to B linear storyline but weaves through time, moving backwards and forwards with fragments of ideas, memories and story dropping in and out. Very SGJ, definitely not one to start with if you're new to his work.
Audiobook narrator did well and I feel captured the tone of SGJ well - if you've heard any of his author afterwords in other audiobooks you'll know what I mean.

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