Your Success Won’t Heal Your Wounds w/ Jerry LoCoco
Jerry LoCoco grew up in a trailer in rural Yuma, Arizona, the son of a violent father and a mother who became a meth addict when he was thirteen, and he spent years hiding that background behind a law degree and one accomplishment after another. None of it healed him. He joins Jason Craig to talk about the masks men build as boys, his novel, Gringo Salado, and the habits of silence, prayer, reading, and writing that finally began to heal his wounds.
In This Episode, We Cover:
Why Jerry sees poverty, not race, as the true enemy of kids raised in chaos
How the coping habits that keep a child…
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