He's Got Problems

Ethan, a seventeen-year-old boy, gets plucked from his happily solipsistic home behind a gas station by his mother for something that makes his stomach grow cold... a family reunion. His psyche already stained with beyond-his-years sarcasm, intelligence, and negativity, he forays into the gathering, held at his sociopath of a grandmother's home, with personality. His journey, albeit wrought with adolescent rebellion and perverted humor, spirals into something unexpected... healing....
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Ethan, a seventeen-year-old boy, gets plucked from his happily solipsistic home behind a gas station by his mother for something that makes his stomach grow cold... a family reunion. His psyche already stained with beyond-his-years sarcasm, intelligence, and negativity, he forays into the gathering, held at his sociopath of a grandmother's home, with personality. His journey, albeit wrought with adolescent rebellion and perverted humor, spirals into something unexpected... healing. Reunited with his one-year-estranged cousin Emily, calculatingly cold mother Pamela, no-boundaries cousin James, witty yet loving uncle Milton, and Jesse, otherwise given the undeserved title of the conniving, obnoxious family pariah, he discovers more love than he could have ever imagined.As Ethan, head strewn with preconceptions and problems, navigates the myriad of colorful characters that is his family, he encounters a kind of love he'd lost all hope in -family.