Ed Hutchison

Born in the orange groves of Fresno to a 16 year old field hand mother and 15 year old father, Edward was raised in Western Kentucky being shifted between soon divorced rivals more interested in payback than parenting. Living his formative years with grandparents on the crossroads between decency, rebellion, and abject poverty, the author severs familial ties for a chance to gain independence. A keen observer, he documents poverty, moral decay, constraints built on the backs of women and minorities, and a passage of old Kentucky and the societal challenges of the new.