Growing Up Dead in Texas: A Novel
Feb 2027 · Sold by Simon and Schuster
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“One of the truest, and finest, stories you’re likely to read.” —The Dallas Morning News
A blend of fact and fiction, Growing Up Dead in Texas takes us back to master of horror Stephen Graham Jones’s hometown and explores a decade-old crime that tore the community apart.
Twenty-five years ago in Greenwood, Texas, a violent fire erupted in the tiny cotton-growing community. No one ever took responsibility and no one was ever caught. Instead, the town moved forward as if nothing happened. Today, the embers still smolder, but a reckoning may soon be on the horizon in this captivating novel about small-town paranoia and coming home.
A blend of fact and fiction, Growing Up Dead in Texas takes us back to master of horror Stephen Graham Jones’s hometown and explores a decade-old crime that tore the community apart.
Twenty-five years ago in Greenwood, Texas, a violent fire erupted in the tiny cotton-growing community. No one ever took responsibility and no one was ever caught. Instead, the town moved forward as if nothing happened. Today, the embers still smolder, but a reckoning may soon be on the horizon in this captivating novel about small-town paranoia and coming home.
“One of the truest, and finest, stories you’re likely to read.” —The Dallas Morning News
A blend of fact and fiction, Growing Up Dead in Texas takes us back to master of horror Stephen Graham Jones’s hometown and explores a decade-old crime that tore the community apart.
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About the author
Stephen Graham Jones is the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians, My Heart Is a Chainsaw, I Was a Teenage Slasher, and The Buffalo Hunter Hunter. He has been an NEA fellowship recipient and a recipient of several awards including the Ray Bradbury Prize from the Los Angeles Times, the Mark Twain America Voices Award, the Bram Stoker Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, Nebula Award, the Jesse H. Jones Award for Fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters, the Independent Publisher Award for Multicultural Fiction, and the Alex Award from American Library Association. He is the Ivena Baldwin Professor of English at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Stephen Graham Jones is the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians, My Heart Is a Chainsaw, I Was a Teenage Slasher, and The Buffalo Hunter Hunter. He has been an NEA fellowship recipient and a recipient of several awards including the Ray Bradbury Prize from the Los Angeles T...
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