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Fourteen-year-old Junius Posey pushes weed for a small-time neighborhood dealer — a low rung on the ladder of the gangster life surrounding him. But when his older brother is shot dead, Junius grips a gun for the first time and starts climbing.

Flanked by his best friend, Junius sets his sights on the Rindge Towers, a low-income high-rise looming over the cold streets of Cambridge, Massachusetts — and lorded over by rival drug kingpins. But when one of the Towers’ men draws down...

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Overview

Fourteen-year-old Junius Posey pushes weed for a small-time neighborhood dealer — a low rung on the ladder of the gangster life surrounding him. But when his older brother is shot dead, Junius grips a gun for the first time and starts climbing.

Flanked by his best friend, Junius sets his sights on the Rindge Towers, a low-income high-rise looming over the cold streets of Cambridge, Massachusetts — and lorded over by rival drug kingpins. But when one of the Towers’ men draws down on him, Junius is forced to rack up his first kill — and face the hell that breaks loose.

Now, with a vicious, crack-addicted enforcer bent on paying Junius back in lead, even his mother thinks his best play is to skip town and lie low…maybe forever.

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  • ISBN-13: 9781935562276
  • Publisher: F+W Media, Inc.
  • Publication date: 11/9/2010
  • Pages: 320
  • Product dimensions: 5.92 (w) x 10.24 (h) x 1.15 (d)

Meet the Author

Seth Harwood grew up in the Boston area, graduated from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 2002 and currently lives in Berkeley, CA with his wife Joelle and their dog. He teaches writing and literature at Stanford University and the City College of San Francisco.

In 2005, about a month after getting married, Seth and Joelle landed in San Francisco, where he started writing Jack Wakes Up. After almost 9 months of working on the novel, he decided he was ready to podcast it. In July 2006, the Jack Palms Crime Podcast Series was born. As JACK WAKES UP was followed by A LONG WAY FROM DISNEY, JACK PALMS II: THIS IS LIFE, and JACK PALMS 3: CZECHMATE, his podcast audience grew into a sizeable world-wide following, as covered by the San Francisco Chronicle here.

When Breakneck Books published JACK WAKES UP in March 2008, Seth's online audience (the Palms Daddies and Palms Mommas) jumped all over Amazon.com and bought enough copies to raise the book to #1 in Crime/Mystery and #45 overall in books.

JACK WAKES UP was subsequently purchased by THREE RIVERS PRESS (Random House) and will be re-released on May 5th 2009—Cinco de Harwood. It has already received rave reviews from Publisher's Weekly, Michael Connelly, and will soon be featured in the New York Times Book Review.

Seth’s other jobs have included commodities floor trading clerk, bartender, copy-editor for Avon Products, rare book cataloguer, librarian, English teacher, and freelance journalist.
His stories have been published in Post Road, Ecotone, Inkwell, Sojourn: A Journal of the Arts, and The Red Rock Review, among others, as well as in the online journals Storyglossia and zeek.net. His story "White” was nominated for a Pushcart prize.

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  • Posted November 24, 2010

    Well-Crafted Characters

    Harwood lifts the lid off a public housing project in Cambridge, Boston, exploring the pressure cooker environment that forces young black men into a life of drugs and violence in a 36-hours-in-the-life story of young Junius Posey. It's an impressive plate-spinning act of multiple voices and points of view, all leading to a dramatic crescendo where everything and everyone in the story come together. From Junius and his friend Elf to Junius' stouthearted mother and drunkard father to bent cops to gang leaders to crack fiends, he jams the story full of well-crafted characters and makes us believe in and empathize with them as individuals. Strong recommendation.

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  • Posted November 9, 2010

    I Also Recommend:

    Jack Wakes Up
    Ancestor
    The Big Sleep

    Harwood Rocks It AGAIN!!

    This tale, set in 80's Boston captures the time and the place exceptionally well. It is the story of a young man's quest to avenge his brother's murder. He has to grow up quickly and act twice as fast to evade the pitfalls of finding a man at the top of the crack slinging criminal organization. It is gritty and so real you can taste the gun smoke!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 21, 2010

    Great Period Piece.

    This a great novel and a great mid 80's Boston period piece. Young Junius is another great addition to the Jack Palms series but unlike JP 1, 2, and 3 this is less action film, and more of a character driven drama. It's well worth you time, and if you're not convinced check out the free pdf at sethharwood dot com and I know you'll be hooked.

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