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An American Demon is Jack Grisham's story of depravity and redemption, terror, and spiritual deliverance. While Grisham is best known as the caterwauling front man of the pioneer hardcore punk band TSOL (True Sounds of Liberty), his writings and true life experiences are physically and psychologically more complex, unsettling, and violent than those of Bret Easton Ellis and Chuck Palahniuk. This is James Frey's A Million Little Pieces exponentially squared, horribly true, but with a life lesson rooted in eighties hardcore punk culture, fervently steeped in renegade interpretations of 12-step programs and the radical-to-the-core (and most assuredly non-evangelical) parables of Christ. An American Demon flourishes on both extremes, as a scary hardcore punk memoir and as a handbook for recovery and survival inside our overly materialistic and woefully self-absorbed ""me-first"" modern society.

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If you've ever found yourself unable to turn away from witnessing an accident, crash or natural disaster, you'll read America Demon straight through, like I did. Jack Grisham's memoir is as original as it is horrifying. I couldn't put it down. -- James Frey, bestselling author, A Million Little Pieces and Bright Shiny Morning Jack Grisham finally, irrevocably, puts to death the slander that the early Los Angeles punk scene was 'plastic.' The first true literature to come out of our pathetic little punk lives, American Demon is haunting and awakens monsters. But it should come with a warning label: it's a dangerous book. Read Patti Smith's Just Kids. Then read this. But only if you have the courage to follow poetry as far as it can go. --Paul Roessler, producer, composer, musician [N]ot for the timid. . . . a meld of Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray with Fight Club and A Clockwork Orange , [Grisham] offers a savage poetry with an undertow of wit. In his lens, not-so-quiet Los Angeles suburbs become awash with dysfunction, revolt, and violence. Yet in the end he offers a sense of recovery as well. -- Houston Press (May 5, 2011) [ An American Demon is a] brutal and artful memoir. . . [Grisham] is a poet of pathology, an uber-punk in a nest of vipers. -- Ventura County Reporter (August 8, 2011) [A] brutal and artful memoir. . . . [Grisham] is a poet of pathology, an uber-punk in a nest of vipers. --www.PopMatters.com (May 9, 2011)

[ An American Demon is a] brutal and artful memoir. . . [Grisham] is a poet of pathology, an uber-punk in a nest of vipers. -- Ventura County Reporter (August 8, 2011)

[N]ot for the timid. . . . a meld of Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray with Fight Club and A Clockwork Orange , [Grisham] offers a savage poetry with an undertow of wit. In his lens, not-so-quiet Los Angeles suburbs become awash with dysfunction, revolt, and violence. Yet in the end he offers a sense of recovery as well. -- Houston Press (May 5, 2011)

If you've ever found yourself unable to turn away from witnessing an accident, crash or natural disaster, you'll read America Demon straight through, like I did. Jack Grisham's memoir is as original as it is horrifying. I couldn't put it down. -- James Frey, bestselling author, A Million Little Pieces and Bright Shiny Morning

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Now in heavy demand as a public speaker, Jack Grisham currently receives thousands of calls a month from individuals and organizations seeking his advice, expertise, wit, mentorship, and support, especially on drug and alcohol–related issues. Grisham is a master hypnotherapist and resides in Huntington Beach, California. He spends his time with his family, surfs, and voluntarily offers his services to his community.

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