num_pages: 298
description: It's the summer of 1978 and sixteen-year-old Antonio "Tony" McCaugh has tried to commit suicide. Rather than hire an expensive psychologist, Tony's mother flies him from his Appalachian father's house to San Francisco so Tony can spend the summer with his womanizing, pot-smoking, peyote-eating Uncle Juan "Jack" Villalobos. Hanging out with Jack, she believes, is guaranteed to shake Tony out of his depression.
language: English
title: The Holy Spirit of My Uncle's Cojones
titlecomplete: The Holy Spirit of My Uncle's Cojones
genres: Fiction
ratings_count: 28
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY)
category: Fiction  (Finalist)
publisher: Arte Publico Press