James “Jimbo” Winslow is the football golden boy of a forgotten Tennessee town in the Appalachian Mountains, but growing up in an abusive home leaves scars he can’t outrun.

A chance at escape pulls him away just as the town threatens to swallow him whole. With a fresh start and a full scholarship, Jimbo is on his way. Until a life-threatening injury stops him cold. Adrift and far from home, Jimbo’s search for success and belonging drags him all the way to Hollywood, and through some of the darkest corners of his own ambition and desire, stripping away every illusion he’s held about who he is and what he deserves.

When he finally returns to Tennessee, he finds a home that feels both familiar and foreign, a born-again mother he can’t entirely trust, and ghosts from his past he can’t ignore. Forced to confront the people he left and the boy he used to be, Jimbo must decide whether he can forgive, be forgiven, and risk love again in the place that both raised and ruined him.

The Used Parts of Jimbo Winslow is a raw, darkly funny, and devastating coming‑of‑age novel about the damage done where love should have been, and the dangerous, defiant hope of loving anyway, even if it costs you a part of yourself.

For readers of Demon Copperhead, Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream, The Art of Fielding, The Prince of Tides, and Jesus’ Son.