Gina Tron

Suspect is available for purchase from the publisher, from Amazon, at Barnes and Noble, Bookshop, and possibly your local bookstore. You can read an excerpt at Hobart Pulp.

Suspect is more than just a personal recollection- it is an examination of how people perceive mass shootings and the contagion effect.

As a teenager in a rural Vermont high school in the period immediately following the Columbine shooting, Gina Tron was accused of being a would-be school shooter. As a creative goth kid whose imagination didn't fear the dark, Tron was no stranger to being singled out, ostracized, "othered." Seamlessly blending memoir with investigative journalism, Suspect is a story of survival and social justice in black eyeliner.

“A thoughtful and fascinating portrait of bygone small town teenage life—specifically the era just before school shootings transformed from unthinkable tragedy to accepted banality. Through memories of bullying and navigating esoteric high school social structures, Tron details the psychological impact of the Columbine shooting on teens across the nation, capturing and investigating the strange mixture of revulsion and kinship many experienced in its aftermath”. — B.R. Yeager, author of Negative Space and Burn You the Fuck Alive.

“Suspect is an unflinching, sharp-edged, and smart as hell story of post-Columbine America. It walks the line between journalism and memoir, giving readers deeply personal insight into a teen’s life in a rural New England town, while interstitially providing factual and sourced information to give context. A unique and powerful book.” — Ann Dávila Cardinal, award-winning author of We Need No Wings

“Suspect is a total immersion into the angst, violence, and hysteria that captured the zeitgeist of the ’90s. Like the Neo-version of Hawthorne’s ‘The Scarlet Letter,’ Tron looks back at a troubled time in America with curiosity, when once she inadvertently became a town’s pariah. Rich in shock rock, spiked collars, and Mountain Dew, Tron’s memoir is a rich piece of the past we can’t stop revisiting and dare not ignore”— Jax Miller, author of Freedom’s Child and Hell in the Heartland: Murder, Meth, and the Case of Two Missing Girls

“Gripping, incisive, and tender—I couldn’t put this book down. A masterful display of heart, wit, courage and grace.”—Chrystin Ondersma, author of Dignity Not Debt

"Gina Tron brings the detailed, clear-sighted wisdom of an expert journalist to her intensely personal new memoir, in which she explores the psyche of a well-meaning and overwhelmed teenager who’s been accused of plotting to harm her classmates with a lens that feels universal. We are all SUSPECT." — Meghan Joyce Tozer, M.M. Ph.D.,” author of Night, Forgotten, and UnSlut: A Diary and a Memoir

"Teens only have two powers: the power to imagine, and the power to bully. Gina Tron wielded the first and faced the brunt of the second during the Columbine era. This harrowing memoir is a must-read for anyone who never fit, or who has ever been afraid and enraged."— Nick Mamatas, author of The Second Shooter.

“When I was a teenaged girl, I experienced the most intense few years of vile jealousy, hatred, and out-of-control scenarios that movies like Heathers and The Craft could barely scratch the surface on. To say that Tron evokes a brutally honest rendition of her own teenage years similar to these, where her struggles between herself and her mother, false friendships, and identity hunts, would be the ultimate understatement. Suspect is the story of a girl caught between adulthood—where the unsettling aspects of high school hell cut through all judgements. An emotionally jagged observation from both present, past, and future, Tron recounts and recognizes how adults fail us, friendships are twisted, and in the end, it’s our connections in the least likely of places that hold us together” —Hillary Leftwich, author of Ghosts Are Just Strangers Who Know How to Knock and Aura

“Brutal in the story it tells, but empathetic and gracious in its delivery, Suspect is now one of my favorite books, and we're lucky it exists.”—Jay Halsey, author of Barely Half in an Awkward Line

“Gina Tron’s Suspect is a compelling and evocative exploration of the harsh realities of female adolescence, particularly for those of us who grew up feeling “othered” by our peers. True, not every unpopular teenage girl is accused of being a prospective school shooter or domestic terrorist–but the unwarranted scrutiny, suspicion, and ostracization that come with such an accusation are all-too-similar to the hell inflicted upon any teenage girl deemed a social outcast. In this unflinchingly honest memoir, Tron delves into her own unique and painful experiences to illustrate the universal struggle of young women navigating a world in which they are undervalued, unprotected, and denied the benefit of the doubt.”—Annie Singer, author and editor at Ladygunn

You can purchase Eat, Fuck, (write about) Murder at Amazon or from the publisher.

Gina Tron takes you to a perfect world cushioned with safety and sweetness like a plump Gusher. In Eat, Pray, Love, the protagonist travels around the world following her divorce to find purpose, meaning, and then love again. Eat, Fuck, (Write About) Murder is a much bleaker version of that story. In the midst of breakups with a serious boyfriend and a literary agent, Gina does some traveling, some eating, and writes about murder for work, but — spoiler — she does not fall in love again.

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“Nobody wants to grind for the man, but most of us have to. Gina Tron has clocked into a lot of nonsense which has luckily led to these undeniably relatable poems recalling the details of making other people money in order to survive. Employment is a book about how we actually spend our lives, wrapped in humor and working-class wisdom.”

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“Crank calls, cat calls, call outs, and close calls are just part of the makeup of this brave and surreal collection that examines the enactment and denial of American violence. Gina will drag you through the dirt and you’ll thank her for the enlightenment.”

“…an act of resistance.” - Ploughshares

Available at select bookstores in Vermont and Colorado and on Amazon

“I became a fan of Gina Tron’s from her nonfiction work and now see her fictional stories are hilarious — in a Franz Kafka sort of way.  These stories nonsensical and absurd, but, through humor and metaphors, this book is actually a satirical look at how ridiculous human beings can be. The first story, for example, uses a mass shooting at a chip factory to point out how inane reactions to national and international tragedies can be.” - Ann Coulter

“They [the stories] paint a world dominated by abusive authority figures, absurdly whacked-out priority systems and fast food. These bizarre parables and put-ons bear glowing blurbs from a wide range of cultural tastemakers — including, of all people, conservative writer and commentator Ann Coulter.” - Seven Days

“The stories reveal that when it comes to making you feel as though you just combined shrooms with the 1994 film The Pagemaster, projected on a thousand 80” screens simultaneously, Tron has the talent to fuck with you in a multitude of ways. She has a swift, cruel knack for guiding her characters through brief, hysterical episodes, each of which manages to relate bleak comedy suffering in a singular fashion. Eggolio and Other Fables establishes Gina Tron as one of the most essential satirists of this moment in time. Her fables remind us that no matter what, no matter how horrible things seem to be, you can probably find a way to make them funny.” - Drunk Monkeys

“The stories in Eggolio and Other Fables read like modern fairy tales, and like many fairy tales, they hide all manner of sinister quirks beneath their veneer of unadorned language and ingenious plotting. From suicidal Starburst farmers and a watermelon-obsessed crab to a corpse preserved in chocolate and the unforeseen dangers of class clocks, Gina Tron's narratives depict a world that's both outlandish and horribly, chastening familiar — because the scariest thing about the grotesque world these characters inhabit is that it's our own." - Tom Hawking, former Editor in Chief at Flavorwire

“To read Gina Tron's book of modern, murderous fables is to drop acid in the children's book section of an abandoned library in a desolate rural part of America. This dark, oddly hilarious and heartbreaking book is inappropriate for children, but then again, so are most childhood experiences.” - Lindsay Goldwert, comedian

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*called "best of the best" by The Strand in Manhattan in 2015*

“Gina Tron’s memoir You’re Fine (Papercut Press) is a revealing, raging descent into madness. When Tron checks herself into a mental health facility, she is battered and addicted seeking the help she does not find from friends and family. But what she finds instead is poorly staffed and apathetic environment where patients flout the rules and staff turn a blind eye. Yet, in the midst of chaos, Tron is able to build friendships and make some deep insights into her past and the forces that first drove to escape her small Vermont home town for New York City and finally pushed out of her control. Vibrant, darkly funny, and courageously candid Tron has written about losing your mind and then reclaiming it in psychedelic, poetic prose.” - Interview Magazine

“In You’re Fine, her autobiography and first book, Tron leads readers on a twisted path through her own personal history detailing events both humorous and dark with a consistent candidness that is excruciatingly honest and magnetic. Tron’s insight into the world around her is often cut with sarcasm and humor, but it carries a depth as she tries to give meaning to the chaos.” - PANK

“The passages I quoted above give you a sense of Tron's voice — in-your-face, deliberately outrageous and often fun to read. (Elizabeth Wurtzel and Prozac Nation sometimes come to mind.) Tron has a sharp, insightful eye for the many ways in which people can be nice and (more often) nasty to one another, and her description of middle school in Vermont may draw groans of recognition from some readers. (Was it really that bad? Yes. It was.)” - Seven Days

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"The series is more than a detailed account of online dating success stories. It is also an anthropological study about how modern people seek each other out and turn digital winks and notes into a full-fledged partnership.” - The New York Times

Tron and Cumbo's book makes it patently clear that there's lots of ways to find love that don't involve swiping right. There are senior citizens who met on AOL chat (bless their hearts), a pair of nerds who met on a Legend of Zelda forum, and a couple who met on Craigslist's "free stuff" page (he was giving away movie tickets he'd won in a contest, she was new to the city).” - VICE