This eighties-centric, ritalin-fueled, pitch-perfect comic novel by a writer to watch brings energy and originality to the classic midwestern coming-of-age story.meet justin cobb, "The king Kong of oral obsessives" (as h...This eighties-centric, ritalin-fueled, pitch-perfect comic novel by a writer to watch brings energy and originality to the classic midwestern coming-of-age story.meet justin cobb, "The king Kong of oral obsessives" (as his dentist dubs him) and the most appealingly bright and screwed-up fictional adolescent since holden caulfield donned His Hunter's cap.