America as only Americans knew it! The dark depths of her soul, which even Faulkner did not write about, are the theme of the stunning prose of J. T. Leroy. We meet the hero of this unconventional “novel-education” when he turns 4 years old and his prostitute mother, who has become an adult, takes the child from guardians. The growing son decides to become a prostitute, better than his mother, and takes her name.

The story of a perverted childhood through the eyes of the boy Jeremiah and his prostitute mother Sarah, who sells her son’s soul and body. Jeremiah's life is an endless journey with Sarah through truck stops, strip clubs and motels inhabited by perverts, drug addicts and criminals. Constantly exposed to new dangers, Jeremy desperately fights for the right to exist...