South of Heaven
A Boyhood Broken
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South of Heaven
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Nolan Trowe
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Nolan Trowe
"A powerful story of perseverance and survival ... [Nolan] shows us that the way out is not an escape, but pushing through the daunting challenges of a chaotic life." --Tony Hawk
For readers of The Basketball Diaries, Girl, Interrupted, Beautiful Boy, and Just Kids: A memoir of growing up, soaring, shattering, and recovering
Growing up in SoCal in the early 2010s, Nolan Trowe spent his early teenage years living largely on his own, exiled from his family, skateboarding and smoking and roaming the streets with friends. But one by one, he lost many of those same friends to suicide and overdose, while others vanished into different lives. At 22, while cliff jumping from a notorious hangout called Goliath, Nolan burst his L-1 vertebrae—causing a spinal cord injury that forced him to change his path, uncertain whether he would ever walk again.
In South of Heaven, Nolan Trowe tells his remarkable story, writing in a hurtling, unstoppable flow of words and images, music and memory, rage and desperation and love and yearning, about boys and girls surviving day to day on what they could scrounge, deal, trade, steal, earn, and learn from each other.
South of Heaven will resonate with the kids who were labeled fuckups, parents who lost a child to the opioid crisis, friends who lost friends too early, the skaters, the loners, the addicts, the artists, the children from broken homes–all the people who still find beauty, meaning, and fulfillment where it’s invisible to the rest of us.
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"A powerful story of perseverance and survival, seen through the lens of skateboarding as a community and way of life. Nolan sees his closest friends electively destroy themselves and vows to not follow their paths, only to be faced with an existential crisis of facing paralysis and how to safely manage pain. In the end he chooses a “beautiful life, not a perfect one” and shows us that the way out is not an escape, but pushing through the daunting challenges of a chaotic life." --Tony Hawk
“I could not put this book down. Electric, heartbreaking, hilarious, brave—I haven’t read anything like Nolan Trowe’s South of Heaven in ages. To say it’s about the messy underside of disability and masculinity is accurate, but insufficient. The prose pulsates with Trowe’s raw depictions of youth, friendship, and love, and glitters with gorgeous flickers of wisdom that leap from the text and take your breath away. Think Jack Kerouac’s On the Road and S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, but for a 21st-century reader. Timeless, unforgettable.” —Kate Bolick, author of the New York Times-bestseller Spinster
"At its core, this is a book about friendship—Nolan Trowe describes his friends with such attention, such love, that it comes close to prayer, only to peel back the veneer that holds everything together. Beautifully written, full of wild energy and deep insights into what it is to be alive, this book is a revelation, in all senses of the word." --Nick Flynn, author of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City and Low
"South of Heaven, a memoir of reckless boyhood, the bond between friends, and a life altered by one decisive moment of chance and accident, is unlike any other in its candor and depth. It is a vivid portrayal of a self and a body in need of recovery, and the extraordinary will to live a dignified life under extreme circumstances. 'I’ve departed from love’s shore,' Trowe writes, and yet, in reading this extraordinary book, all we witness is love in its many forms." —Jill Bialosky, author of History of a Suicide and The End Is the Beginning