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Clueless in New Orleans
Adventures in Adolescence

By Jack Saux

152 pages
5 1/2" x 8 1/2" paperback
$14.95

Join Dué Bonogura on his journey into that complicated, confusing, life-changing experience known as adolescence. One kiss removed him from the simple life of fishing and hanging out with his pals to the pursuit of something he absolutely did not understand. He did learn that jealousy and paranoia seemed to be an integral part of that process. But, as he was trying to sort through all of those emotions, he discovered the body of a murdered priest, his parish priest. And then the killer came after Dué.

The locale is slightly north of the Gulf of Mexico and a tad south of the United States. It is in an experience we call New Orleans.

If you are currently touring the planet puberty, you will look at your friends and schoolmates to see which one of them was the inspiration for Dué's character. If those years are in the past, but still in memory, Dué will make you smile. And if you have forgotten, you will remember.

 

What They're Saying

Jack Saux takes the forgotten yet achingly familiar aspects of our adolescence, the years that define us, and casts it within the unique experience of growing up in a place now vanquished with time and water. He has put in our hands that first fire that burned in our hearts. And his book leaves you smiling, wondering, and remembering the magic of it all.
- Joshua Clark, Heart Like Water, Simon and Schuster

I finished your book last night. It's fantastic. Dué is such an authentic and relatable character-I was cheering and groaning right along with him.
- Ann Bonwill, author of several children's books: Pocket's Christmas Wish, Oxford University Press, and Bug and Bear, Naughty Toes, and I Don't Want to be a Pea! Random House.

A funny, coming-of-age story with an emphatic New Orleans accent. Jack Saux is a great storyteller, interweaving the serial adventures of an adolescent male as he navigates through the minefield of puberty.
- Earl Higgins, The Joy of Yat Catholicism, and Metairie, Aimes, High, The Streets of Jefferson Parish, Pelican Press

 

For information, interviews, or bulk purchase discount pricing, contact

Arthur Hardy
504-913-1563 or mardihardy@aol.com

  


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About The Author

I am a New Orleans boy, a product of my incredible city, touched by all of her virtues, vices, and exuberance.

The nuns in grammar school taught me to love Jesus. The priests and scholastics (priests in training) at Jesuit High attempted to help me understand Jesus. In my first year at the U. S. Naval Academy, the upperclassmen taught me to talk to Jesus as in, "Jesus, will this year ever end?"

Like most kids, aircraft were a fascination for me. This interest was sparked by the fact that my dad and two of his brothers had flown in World War II. Flying was my job for 34 years-as if you could call anything that much fun a job! The first five years were in the military, the rest were with an airline. When I count my blessings, right at the top of the list is an eighth grade Christmas party where I met Yvonne, the woman I would marry. She gave us three children who, in turn, provided nine grandchildren. Translated into Latin, that reads Deo Gratias.