In particular, she loves the Denver Broncos and enjoys going to the games with her husband.

She’s a fan of just about anything that involves muscular young men piling on top of each other. In fact, he’s beginning to think his feelings for Cody go beyond friendship.Īdmitting he might be gay is hard enough, but between small-town prejudices and the growing AIDS epidemic dominating the headlines, a town like Warren, Wyoming, is no place for two young men to fall in love. But Nate knows Cody’s a good kid who’s been dealt a lousy hand. Cody’s dirt-poor, from a broken family, and definitely lives on the wrong side of the tracks. The entire school’s smaller than his graduating class back home, and in a town where the top teen pastimes are sex and drugs, Nate just doesn’t fit in. There’s no swimming pool, no tennis team, no mall-not even any MTV. Now, instead of spending his senior year in his hometown of Austin, Texas, he’s living with his father in Warren, Wyoming, population 2,833 (and Nate thinks that might be a generous estimate). It’s 1986, and what should have been the greatest summer of Nate Bradford’s life goes sour when his parents suddenly divorce. But I love Cody and Nate so much, I just had to tell their story, and I promise, these boys do earn their happy ending. The setting for Trailer Trash may look depressing, and to a large extent, it is. But this is the collage I used both times around (I’m pretty sure Heidi Cullinan made this for me back in 2011). I put it on hold for years, but I always knew I’d finish it someday. I originally started this story back in 2011. The wind along this stretch of interstate is so bad, it’s been known to blow semis over: On a good day, that section of I-80 looks like this: It’s windy and barren and goes on forever, mostly flat and straight as a ruler.

Now, I’ve driven I-80 across southern Wyoming many, many times, and it’s hell. This area of Wyoming is so windy that there aren’t many trees, but many of the ones that grow in that area look like this: If you look at a map of Southern Wyoming, and find the spot about midway between Rawlins and Rock Springs, then go ten or fifteen miles north into nowhere, you’ll have the approximate location of Warren. Trailer Trash is set in the fictional town of Warren, Wyoming, along the I-80 corridor. This is the picture I have for Nate, although it isn’t perfect. I’ve since learned that this picture is of actor Nicholas Hoult, but this picture has always been Cody in my mind. I thought I’d share a few pictures that helped inspire book, and a few that might help illustrate the setting. Trailer Trash is about two high school seniors in small-town Wyoming in the mid-1980s.

Hello, everyone! I’m Marie Sexton, and I’m here today to talk about my New Adult novel, Trailer Trash. Riptide Publishing Cover Art by Jay Aheer Read an Excerpt/Buy It Here

Trailer Trash by Marie Sexton