Jerry LoCoco grew up in a trailer in rural Yuma, Arizona, the son of a violent father and a mother who became a meth addict when he was thirteen, and he spent years hiding that background behind a law degree and one accomplishment after another. None of it healed him. He joins Jason Craig to talk about the masks men build as boys, his novel, Gringo Salado, and the habits of silence, prayer, reading, and writing that finally began to heal his wounds.
In This Episode, We Cover:
Why Jerry sees poverty, not race, as the true enemy of kids raised in chaos
How the coping habits that keep a child safe, like sorting every person into good or bad, start damaging a grown man’s relationships
Why a law degree couldn’t heal his wounds
What mimetic desire is, and how chasing what other men have leaves you empty
Why feeling lost around forty can be a tug toward God rather than an excuse for a midlife crisis
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