Teeth

A Mostly True Story about Mt. St. Helens, Harry Truman, and Me

“Teeth” is the story of the major 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens, my obsession with an old man who refused to leave his home on the mountain, and the first realization of what death is…or maybe isn’t.

Intertwined with the story of the volcano is the story of my own family and neighborhood—the people who colored in the memories I had at that young age—as well as the tale of how I came to own a jar of ash with something unusual inside.

Book details

32 pages (4.5″ x 6″), limited to 200 copies, signed by the author

Illustration of a jar holding a powdery substance
"Scientists say Truman likely felt an icy, wet wind pushed down from the shattered glacial slopes, then was incinerated." - Seattle Post Intelligencer on Harry Truman's death in the. May 18, 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens

Buy the book

Regular edition

$20 plus shipping

Regular edition, plus

$25 plus shipping

  • Includes access to playlist compiled by author and illustrator