Its a Jungle Out There (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798193595205)

Growing up is hard enough when nobody gives you the map.

Coming of age in Washington, D.C., Chris is trying to figure out what kind of man he's supposed to become while surrounded by plenty of examples of what not to be.

There are friends who become family. Women he loves, wants, hurts, and doesn't always understand. Sex. Loyalty. Temptation. Ambition. Bad decisions that feel like good ones at the time. And lessons that usually arrive a little too late.

Told through raw first-person storytelling, poetry, letters, humor, and an unusual world of animal and color symbolism, It's a Jungle Out There follows one young man's journey through the beautiful, hilarious, reckless, and sometimes painful years between adolescence and adulthood.

Because growing older happens naturally.

Growing up is another story.