“One of the truest, and finest, stories you’re likely to read.”—The Dallas Morning News

A blend of fact and fiction, Growing Up Dead in Texas takes us back to master of horror Stephen Graham Jones’s hometown and explores a decade-old crime that tore the community apart.

Twenty-five years ago in Greenwood, Texas, a violent fire erupted in the tiny cotton-growing community. No one ever took responsibility and no one was ever caught. Instead, the town moved forward as if nothing happened. Today, the embers still smolder, but a reckoning may soon be on the horizon in this captivating novel about small-town paranoia and coming home.