JESSE FEW PEDDLES LIES. His boss and clients order a couple. His married

girlfriend gets a few. His family buys several. But he saves the top-of-the-line

dishonesty to sell to himself.

The forty-nine-year-old suburban rogue focuses on boozing with his golf buddies,

chasing much-too younger women, and surviving the Great Recession that’s

raging across the South like it’s the Big Bank’s March to the Sea. His rambling

approach to life and love is challenged when his boozy mom believes she’s being

stalked by her long-dead first husband and his woebegone son skirmishes with a

megalomaniac preacher.

A cowboy-up moment drives him to decide whether he’ll saddle up and rescue

his loved ones from these imminent threats or retreat to the familiar comforts

of denial, avoidance, and blowing up watermelons

with black market machine guns. This is an irreverent

mid-life coming-of-age story where an unwitting hero

wrestles with his capacity to mature into a bona fide

adult.