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Jackson Cole, Jr
The East End Series follows the interconnected lives of the outcast denizens of Long Island, New York––exiles, visionaries, and pariahs, seeking connection and community where none can be easily fo...view moreThe East End Series follows the interconnected lives of the outcast denizens of Long Island, New York––exiles, visionaries, and pariahs, seeking connection and community where none can be easily found.For Shelly O’Connor (volume 1) follows Jonathan as he comes to terms with the death of his best friend, Shelly––her death by heroin overdose plunges him into a psychotic spiral, where he is forced to confront the failures of his past and the uncertain path ahead of him, adjusting to living in a world now absent of people he once held most dear to him.Atropa Belladonna (volume 2), set four days before Shelly’s death, focuses on the relationship between her and Jonathan over the course of one life-changing day and night––painting a picture of the events leading up to her tragic demise. It also explores the life of Jonathan’s friend Mackey, and his relationship with a notorious local biker gang: The Bombers.A Song of Seasons (volume 3, part 1: “The Cronies’ Chorus”) is a coming-of-age story which sees Jonathan and his friends coming to terms with their tumultuous teenage years, first facing the obstacles commensurate with their place on the social ladder, which will later come to characterize their unhappy lives: addiction, suicide and a desperate search for hope amidst the poverty of their backgrounds.In the volume’s second part (“The Bombers”), we explore the biker gang’s wide-ranging criminal influence over the atrophying town of Seaville, NY––running a local strip club and prostitution ring based around the trafficking of young Hispanics. One of the girls, known as “Marielle”, will come to be a formative influence on the younger Jonathan, haunting him throughout the rest of his tortured existence.Unsparing in its honesty, and told in dizzyingly immersive prose, The East End Series offers a unique insight into the underbelly of Long Island, with an unforgettable cast of characters––all trying desperately to fight against the hand life has dealt them.view less