Tweakerville
A Novel Set in Hawai‘i’s Crystal Meth World
by Alexei Melnick
Jesse is 17, eighty-sixed from his honest working-class Hawai’i family home, living with the dealer and his crew, running drugs on his moped, useful because he is still legally a juvenile.
Partied out, he drops off to sleep–and wakes up with a strange girl lying next to him, dead, ODd on crystal methamphetamine, ice.
Call the ambulance? No way. That would bring the cops, and the house is loaded with drugs. Gotta get rid of the body. Jesse digs the grave, deep.
And he keeps getting pulled deeper into the nightmare universe of crystal meth: tweakers, chronics, bulls and hammers, tattooed gangstas who swing machete and pull trigger.
In a crazed and violent world outside the law, Jesse wants to believe in some kind of code of honor. Banished from his own family, he needs to believe in some kind of human connection.
But ice is savage–it can twist loyalty into treachery and betrayal. Ice rules life, and ice can decree death.
This is the story that Jesse is compelled to tell, and Tweakerville is compulsive reading, appalling and enthralling from killer opening to killer ending.
A shockingly powerful novel that pulls us into the world of crystal meth. The characters are our neighbors, our cousins, our brothers, the ones who break our hearts. A breathtaking debut.
—Chris McKinney
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Available October 2010
Retail: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1-56647-933-9
ISBN-13: 978-1-56647-933-2
Softcover • 5.5 x 8 in. • 276 pp
Tweakerville can be found at your local bookstores or can be purchased directly from MutualPublishing.com
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October 23rd, 2010 at 12:35 pm
Best book I've ever read!!!!!! I live and grew up in Hawaii and this book embodied all of the elements of growing up in the islands. As a young man growing up, you are surrounded by these type of characters. They are the same people you went to highschool with and played park sports with. You see them when you go to the store and you have them in your family. The character development is wonderful. You see Jesse try to change while seeing how hard it is to branch yourself from the friends you grew up loving and admiring.
The mixture of pidgin with english is easy to understand and flows naturally. It's like listening to a friend telling a story. No one growing up in Hawaii only speaks pidgin or only english. There is always a mixture of both languages.
October 27th, 2010 at 7:25 am
Being from Hawaii is not necessary to understand this book. This is the first time someone has shown our culture as unique and significant and yes pidgin english does exist and it is our own language! This book brings to light the harsh reality of growing up being opressed and how life sometimes gives you few options. Read this book and understand the other side.