The opening image
A thick fog has rolled off the Pacific Ocean this morning and settled over the quiet sleeping city.
Santa Monica at 4:19 AM, crows in the palms, and a writer trying to make sense of a life that keeps refusing to stay buried.
Published now on Amazon
The Crows of Sunset Park
by Jason Detamore
The full book is off the site for now because the published edition is live. What stays here is the bait: sharp excerpts, strange turns, and enough smoke from Sunset Park to send you to Amazon for the whole thing.
Juicy excerpts
A few live wires from the memoir.
The betrayal line
Just because you can hijack a plane doesn't make you a pilot.
A weed-shop fight becomes a larger argument about who gets to own what other people built.
The cannabis world
The legal Ganja trade has proven to be even more difficult to navigate for those old school cowboys with a predisposition toward decency.
The book moves from sacrament and counterculture to bankers, bureaucrats, raids, taxes, and the machinery of legalization.
The survival promise
You are definitely going to get your money's worth. I definitely get smashed in the end.
This is a memoir with teeth: funny, angry, wounded, mystical, political, and allergic to polite euphemism.
What you get
Not a polite campaign pamphlet.
A raw Los Angeles cannabis memoir about Grace Medical, ERBA, raids, courtrooms, betrayal, and survival.
A family story that runs through Hare Krishna childhood, West Virginia, Hollywood, football, prison, faith, and the Pacific Palisades fire.
The origin story behind AFRA and Jason's larger fight against captured institutions and structural power.
The pitch
If you want the crows, the fires, the lawsuits, the weed wars, the miracles, and the fiscal rebellion, buy the book.
The Crows of Sunset Park is memoir, testimony, and argument all at once. It is the story behind Jason Detamore's public fight and the long road from Grace Medical to the American Dream Party.