"...sex, shock, and scandal, longing and shame, nostalgia and escape, and the precarious balance of innocence with dark hunger for meaning. [Scumbag Summer] captures the thrill of racing toward danger..."-SARAH GERARD, author of True Love

"...a bible for hedonism and heartbreak, where bad choices give us a reason to live."-LEXI KENT-MONNING, author of Burden of Joy

"...a love story by way of a dumpster fire [and] the summer's sexiest (and darkest) love letter."-KEVIN MALONEY, author of The Red-Headed Pilgrim

"...hits you like a crush you'll never get to touch, possessing the kind of exiled frisson that happens the moment before you kiss someone new..."-ELLE NASH, author of Deliver Me

"...never flinches from the tawdry, and thus blurs the merely pathetic into sublime pathos."-JACK SKELLEY, author of The Complete Fear of Kathy Acker

"...doesn't feel so much written as conjured from a jewel-encrusted skull buried under a burned-down gas station..."-TROY JAMES WEAVER, author of Temporal