A young Midwest girl runs away from a broken home only to fall into a life even more fractured from a tornado of love, lust, addiction, and loss in this heart wrenching memoir written in passionate verse from inside the guts of America’s Bible Belt.
Oxies and Roxies and Suboxies! Oh my!: A Tornado of Love, Lust, Addiction, and Loss is a gritty hybrid collection of Southern Gothic short stories, narrative poems, and vignettes inspired by life in Southern Indiana.
A teenage girl runs away to escape a home filled with cruelty and betrayal, only to marry into a world of drugs and chaos even more violent. Her plunge into bedlam and fight to survive are a truthful look at navigating a rollercoaster of emotional morality through the drug-entrenched heart of the Conservative Midwest at the turn of the century.
Oxies and Roxies and Suboxies! Oh my! is an honest look at how heartbreak can blur the lines of the soul, and how even on a calm day in recovery, the backroads in BFE are still winding.
⚠️ Explicit Content Warning: Contains depictions of drug use, violence, and sexual content.
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