"I thought it was brilliant, really brilliant. What a smart boy Tristram is."--Mrs. Hoosier "I'm really a lot cooler than the book makes me out to be."--Jason Hoosier
"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
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.