Jimmy Cracked Corn Author:M. F. McCarthy Jimmy Cracked Corn is a great journey of a teen's growth into manhood. The descriptions are vivid and alive with New Jersey Shore references. Written with oddly mixed reminiscences of J.D. Salinger and Flannery O'Connor, the story lulls the reader into a sense of innocent calm -- only to be shattered by an awakening confrontation with violent re... more »ality.« less