Unclaimed But Loud

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Unclaimed But Loud: The Memoir of a Shy and Retiring Boy Who Was Neither</strong></p><p></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>By Keith Howard</em></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A mischievous moving and darkly funny memoir about growing up strange in small-town America-before the fall before the drugs before the booze before it all came apart.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Keith Howard wasn't supposed to be here.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Adopted at six months old. Fired from Orange Julius for laughing. Arrested three times before he could legally vote. A class clown with a taste for acid mischief and burning questions Keith was the kid who pulled down his pants in kindergarten who founded a cult (sort of) who nearly bankrupted the Catholic Church by knocking over a font of Holy Water.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>But behind the antics was a boy desperate to be seen to belong to understand where he came from-and where he might be going.</span></p><p></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Unclaimed But Loud</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is a wildly original coming-of-age memoir told in sharp self-aware prose with laugh-out-loud lines and gut-punch moments of unexpected grace. It's a story of basements and bonfires chickadees and shame dangerous islands and minnow sacrifices. It's about trying to make meaning in a world that never quite makes sense.</span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Before the addiction before the recovery before the redemption-there was this. The boy who refused to disappear.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>For fans of David Sedaris Mary Karr and readers who prefer their memoirs with bite heart and just enough Holy Water to make you flinch.</strong></p>