Thumbsucker

"This eighties-centric, Ritalin-fueled, comic novel by a writer to watch brings energy and originality to the classic Midwestern coming-of-age story."--BOOK JACKET. "Meet Justin Cobb, "the King Kong of oral obsessives" (as his dentist dubs him) and the most appealingly bright and screwed-up fictional adolescent since Holden Caulfield donned his hunter's cap. For years, no remedy - not orthodontia, not the escalating threats of his father, Mike, a washed-out linebacker turned sporting goods entrepreneur, not the noxious cayenne pepper-based Suk-No-Mor - can cure Justin's thumbsucking habit.…