THE HEART IS DECEITFUL ABOVE ALL THINGS takes a journey into the dark heart of the American Road Trip.

A series of connected autobiographical stories, it describes the disturbing relationship between a mother and her adolescent son as she moves from lover to lover, dressing him as a girl and forcing him to shoplift.

These are shocking stories of abusive love and dysfunctional sexuality, of heartbreak and of innocence lost. Once again, LeRoy's fantastical imagination and lyricism twist his haunted past into something utterly strange and magical.

J T LeRoy's debut novel SARAH, published last year, has gained passionate admirers in the UK and USA. Winning plaudits from Dennis Cooper, Chuck Palaniuk and Mary Gaiskiil, it has been described by THE FACE as 'a beautiful, scary, sad and funny book' and the SUNDAY TELEGRAPH as a 'tour de force'