I Am Sorry to Think I Have Raised a Timid Son

With a chirp, a smirk, and a nod, Kent Russell crisscrosses the country, seeking immersive experiences and revelations on societys ragged edge. He pitches a tent among the Insane Clown Posses fans, known as Juggalos, treks to the end of the continent to find out how a legendary hockey enforcer is preparing for his own death, and explores the Amish obsession with baseball as well as his own obsession with horror, blood, and guts. Between these reports from the world at large, Russell introduces us to his raging and inimitable forebearsabove all, his large-living, volatile, hard-as-nails dad.

I Am Sorry to Think I Have Raised a Timid Son is a haunting and howling portrait of Americaand American manhoodand the introduction of a ferociously brilliant new voice navigating the junctures between savagery and civilization within himself.