Frank Vaughn, Killed by His Mom

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Pub Date 01 Dec 2018 | Archive Date 10 Apr 2020

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A dark version of "The Wonder Years," Frank Vaughn Killed by his Mom is "The Great Santini" written by Homer, careening through a coarse world of racism, adultery, abandonment, and even the occasional hope.

It’s summer, 1965. School's out and Butch's birthday is in a few weeks. Perfect; three months of freeze tag, hide and seek and riding his bike way past dark. Well, maybe not completely perfect — Frank Vaughn, a classmate, is beaten to death by his crazy mother for leaving a report card at school. On top of that, Dad is touchier than ever and Mom sadder, so best to hide out next door with his best friend Tommy reading X-Men and hoping for that birthday GI Joe.

But in one night, Butch's summer explodes and he’s now riding across a turbulent and changing Dixie in a white Rambler station wagon, at the mercy of a manic depressive and wildly violent Dad. Like a crewman on Ulysses' ship, Butch encounters a one-eyed evil grandfather, a 12-year-old Siren, the lotus-eaters of Alabama…and Frank Vaughn. If Butch ever sees his beloved sister, Cindy, again, it'll be a miracle. If he's alive at the end of the summer, it'll be a bigger one.

A dark version of "The Wonder Years," Frank Vaughn Killed by his Mom is "The Great Santini" written by Homer, careening through a coarse world of racism, adultery, abandonment, and even the...


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Awesome book! I loved the darkness to this book, makes it a great thrill of a ride!!

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A comic book, cartoon loving, commercial-jingle singing boy named Butch, who is rather sensitive with a massive imagination, goes on a road trip with his distant, abusive father. Along the way, he learns several truths about his father and himself. Traveling from Oklahoma and ending up in Alabama with several visits, meeting people who know a secret about his life, finding out he does have a voice and how to use it with a lot of growing up along the way. Frank Vaughn, Killed by his Mom by D. Krauss was often times emotional but the HUGE imagination of Butch made me giggle. He could have written his own super-hero comic books!

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