Jon Pineda Excerpt: Let’s No One Get Hurt

With the cinematic and terrifying beauty of the American South humming behind each line, Jon Pineda’s Let’s No One Get Hurt is a coming-of-age story set equally between real-world issues of race and socioeconomics and a magical, Huck Finn-esque universe of community and exploration (available March 20, 2018). Fifteen-year-old Pearl is squatting in an abandoned…