Your Face Will Freeze That Way!

I thought it was brilliant really brilliant. What a smart boy Tristram is.--Mrs. Hoosier</p><p>I'm really a lot cooler than the book makes me out to be.--Jason Hoosier</p><p>Okay so Tristram wrote a book. Big deal. Anybody could do that. He thinks he's so big all of a sudden. But I can still kick his ass and he better never forget it.--Aaron Hoosier</p><p>Tristram Hoosier age 12 gets in a fight at school over a haircut becomes a vegetarian for a day sneaks out to watch a midnight movie and builds a fort in the woods--perfectly normal activities for a seventh-grader growing up in Indiana. But he is surrounded by an endless string of tragic and sometimes criminal characters that lend each story a uniquely comic twist.</p>