Maureen McCoy

"I was raised zero-parent," says hormone-addled 17-year-old Junebug Host, «what the newspapers call it when your mother is in prison and the father was just a sperm.»Junebug has been visiting her mother in Ellisville Reformatory for Women ever since she was five years-old, when beauty queen Theresa Host calmly stepped out of their trailer with an axe and inexplicably bludgeoned a neighbor to death. But during the summer of Junebug’s high school graduation—and the summer...