Jarid Manos is author of Ghetto Plainsman and Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Great Plains Restoration Council. He has been published or written about in the New York Times, Dallas Morning News, Denver Post, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, USA Today, Smithsonian, Congressional Quarterly, Houston Chronicle, Albuquerque Journal, Grist, Yes! and many others, and is a featured guest speaker nationwide, having spoken at churches, organizations, rallies, conferences, businesses, chambers of commerce, and schools and universities, including MIT.
He is also a health advocate and youth worker. Through his guidance, GPRC has helped found the new Ecological Health movement which helps young people heal themselves through healing our shattered prairies and plains. A vegan athlete, he also serves on the Board of Directors of the Black Vegetarian Society of Texas. Mr. Manos resides in Fort Worth and Houston, Texas, and he and Karla are parents to 11 year old Kaiden. Ghetto Plainsman is his first book.

 

Ghetto Plainsman
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Paperback: 449 pages
Publisher: Temba House Press; 2nd edition (October 30, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0966841344
ISBN-13: 978-0966841343
Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 1.5 inches

Gritty, raw and spiritual, Ghetto Plainsman chronicles one man’s triumph over humiliation, self-defeat, anger and violence by taking us on a chaotic journey between urban survival and the life-or-death struggles of the ravaged American Great Plains. As a modern-day parable for our crashing Earth, this gripping story reveals how someone on the cut, hustling, drug dealing and trying to beat back despair transforms himself into someone working to save great stretches of the American West that prove to be even more violent and devastated than the inner city.

Jarid Manos finds comfort on a curb or in the shadows of a deserted street. He sees the world as a constant war zone filled with hatred and ugliness. He burns with backlash resentment. To complicate matters, he is tormented by a self-loathing denial of his sexuality and wants to kill it out of him. From coastal Texas to an 80s–early 90s New York City under siege by drugs and AIDS, to a xenophobic L.A. wasteland divided by race and class, all the way out into the stricken Great Plains, Manos can barely see the door that Earth has always held open for us to heal, until… at his last gasp –

 

 

 

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