You Only Get Letters from Jail

by Jodi Angel

Book Overview

Jodi Angel's second story collection, You Only Get Letters from Jail, chronicles the lives of young men trapped in the liminal space between adolescence and adulthood. From picking up women at a bar hours after mom's overdose to coveting a drowned girl to catching rattlesnakes with gasoline, Angel's characters are motivated by muscle cars, manipulative women, and the hope of escape from circumstances that force them either to grow up or give up. Haunted...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1935639579
• ISBN13: 9781935639572
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Tin House Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.0" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

Was expecting a lot more from this one

I kept turning the page waiting for that "moment" in this book and just felt completely let down by the end.