Adopted by unrepentant hippies, Jude gets by in small-town Vermont by doing drugs?until his best friend dies of an overdose. He ends up in New York's East Village, where he discovers straight edge, a movement that favors punk rock while opposing sex, drugs, and meat eating.
This novel is a love letter to the small towns of Lanarkshire in the west of Scotland in the late 1970s and early 80s as they were temporarily transformed by the endless possibilities that came out of the freefall from punk rock. Written in a series of hallucinatory first-person…