Gerald Ott

Jimmietown, KS Gerald Ott

"Jimmietown, KS," is a coming of age story poignantly set in the '50s, in a small Southeast Kansas town called Sugar Loaf. Newly arrived in town, Jimmie-the narrator-is a twelve-year-old whose father is a retired Air Force Chaplain and now the town's newest preacher. As Jimmie ages, he becomes acquainted with the town's characters-some lingering tragically in the aftermath of WWII-some in need of redemption from acts in a painful past-and others uncomfortable with the new realities of racial integration. In Sugar Loaf he learns the value of close friendships. As one reviewer says, "Jimmie's experiences bite at the soul while snapping at the harp strings of the heart."