Release Date: 10/1/2011
Pages: 168
Source: Author
Age Range: Young Adult
Jason Stevens is growing up in picturesque, historic Harpers Ferry, West Virginia in the 1970s. Back when the roads are smaller, the cars slower, the people more colorful, and Washington, D.C. is way across the mountains—a winding sixty-five miles away.
Jason dreams of going to art school in the city, but he must first survive his teenage years. He witnesses a street artist from Italy charm his mother from the backseat of the family car. He stands up to an abusive husband—and then feels sorry for the jerk. He puts up with his father’s hard-skulled backwoods ways, his grandfather’s showy younger wife, and the fist-throwing schoolmates and eccentric mountain characters that make up Harpers Ferry—all topped off by a basement art project with a girl from the poor side of town.
Ugly To Start With is a book I had trouble coming into, and to finish reading it as well. I still wonder what the point of the whole story was, as it was hopping from chapter to chapter, from a sudden point to a sudden other point with no specific connection between it. And then I found out the book is build up with short stories, which I couldn't make out as a reader from the book cover.There were a couple chapters that I did find interesting, but the transition from one chapter to the next didn't really seem to flow together for me.
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