Getting Huge

John Young writes with the humor of David Sedaris and the insight and humanity of John Updike.—Aileen Grever

This often-comic novel is not ‘Christian’ or ‘religious,’ although the narrator is a 7-foot-tall minister … who becomes obsessed with growing the world’s largest pumpkin.

John Crackstone is cracking under the pressure of working with the wrong people in the wrong place. And he’s aching for success.

What begins as backyard lark swells into a hilarious and absurd idea to build a pumpkin...