Let's shut out the world

"Whether describing having his hair styled by a gang of eighth-grade bullies, staging a Satan festival in the main hall of Greenvale High, or indulging in inappropriate sex with a caregiver, Kevin Bentley writes with a pen dipped in blood, indignation, and grim whimsy. Providing the back story and sequel to the Lammy-finalist memoir Wild Animals I Have Known, these autobiographical stories and personal essays move from a twisted youth in Texas--where Bentley butts heads and other body parts with everyone from fundamentalist Christians to a slew of 'fauxmosexuals'--to the glittering excesses and sober spirals of life and love in San Francisco in the seventies and eighties, to the monogamous contentment of an unexpected middle age"--Dust jacket flap.