The Lesser Paperback – February 11, 2026

Told with unflinching honesty, dark humor, and a musician's sense of rhythm, The Lesser is a visceral, first-person memoir that lays bare the wiring, wounds, and traumas of Jacob's childhood in Bellingham, Washington. Reading like a series of vivid vignettes, this ride through 90s Northwest street culture takes you where loyalty and betrayal collide, every hustle has a cost, and one broken kid has to decide whether he's destined for prison or willing to burn his old life down to become the father and man that he so desperately wanted for himself. Read more