This is not your average New Jersey childhood: a circus tiger attack, a schoolmate's abduction, heartbreaking addicts, and a blind bad-ass granny. Scott Loring Sanders' suburban adolescence overflowed with perils: bone-crushing water slides, hitchhiking serial killers, a chilling collision in a '71 Impala. From his tough, complex father to Sanders' own reckoning of fatherhood and alcohol, SURVIVING JERSEY is a tour-de-force exploration of the risks that shape America's youth.