{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Episode 208 \u2014 Mitchell S. Jackson","description":"Mitchell S. Jackson is the guest. His debut novel, The Residue Years, is now available from Bloomsbury.\nJesmyn Ward says\n\n"I know these characters well: Champ with his swagger and invincibility, doing all he can to protect his fiercely beating heart. Grace, held together with polish and a prayer, trying to make a way when there isn’t one. Both of them longing, for a better life, a clear path out of their predicaments. I know the language they speak: voices redolent of struggle and the South displaced to our country’s far northwestern corner: Portland, Oregon. A wrenchingly beautiful debut by a writer to be reckoned with, The Residue Years marks the beginning of a most promising career."\n\nAnd Amy Hempel says\n\n"In this raw heartwreck of a novel, every bit of personal wisdom is hard-won. Here is Grace, mother of Champ: 'Some people are latecomers to themselves, but who we are will soon enough surround us.' It's a searing claim and prophecy about lives severely tested. The author is entirely persuasive, such that Grace and her sons, given vivid voice, are one of the fictional families I have cared about most."\n\nMonologue topics: my adderall experiment, writing, juicing, Dumbo's feather, mild paranoia.  \n","author_name":"Otherppl with Brad Listi","author_url":"http:\/\/otherppl.com","html":"