Ugly to Start With [Paperback]

Jason Stevens is growing up in picturesque, historic Harpers Ferry, West Virginia in the 1970s. Back when the roads are smaller, the cars slower, the people more colorful, and Washington, D.C. is way across the mountainsa winding sixty-five miles away.
 

Jason dreams of going to art school in the city, but he must first survive his teenage years. He witnesses a street artist from Italy charm his mother from the backseat of the family car. He stands up to an abusive husbandand then feels sorry for the jerk. He puts up with his fathers hard-skulled backwoods ways, his grandfathers showy younger wife, and the fist-throwing schoolmates and eccentric mountain characters that make up Harpers Ferryall topped off by a basement art project with a girl from the poor side of town.

Ugly to Start Withpunctuates the exuberant highs, bewildering midpoints, and painful lows of growing up, and affirms that adolescent dreams and desires are often fulfilled in surprising ways.

Jason Stevens is growing up in picturesque, historic Harpers Ferry, West Virginia in the 1970s. Back when the roads are smaller, the cars slower, the people more colorful, and Washington, D.C. is way across the mountainsa winding sixty-five miles away.
 

Jason dreams of going to art school in the city, but he must first survive his teenage years. He witnesses a street artist from Italy charm his mother from the backseat of the family car. He stands up to an abusive husbandand then feels sorry for the jerk. He puts up with his fathers hard-skulled backwoods ways, his grandfathers showy younger wife, and the fist-throwing schoolmates and eccentric mountain characters that make up Harpers Ferryall topped off by a basement art project with a girl from the poor side of town.

Ugly to Start Withpunctuates the exuberant highs, bewildering midpoints, and painful lows of growing up, and affirms that adolescent dreams and desires are often fulfilled il#1