After the success of "Sarah": Scott McClanahan on his upbringing in rural West Virginia, translated by Clemens Setz.

Scott McClanahan dares to do what few of us are capable of. He looks at life as it is: heartbreakingly tragic and beautifully poignant, filled with sickness, joy, death, grotesqueness, excitement, and love.

In doing so, he hits the core: the human being with all its flaws and in its divine splendor.

In "Crap," he recounts (his) childhood in West Virginia, structural poverty, and mining disasters that have wiped out entire towns. He tells stories about Grandma Ruby, Uncle Nathan, and the other eccentric members of the McClanahan clan, about American youth, and how Naked Joe got his name.

In 2020, "Sarah" by Scott McClanahan was also published by ars vivendi, again translated by Clemens J. Setz.