In one story from this collection, the narrator abandons his girlfriend Michelle at an abortion clinic and becomes sexually attracted to a man he randomly follows to a laundromat.
In one story from this collection, the narrator abandons his girlfriend Michelle at an abortion clinic and becomes sexually attracted to a man he randomly follows to a laundromat. The line "And you, you ridiculous people, you expect me to help you?" ends its first story, in which the narrator wanders around a car accident scene with an unscathed baby after the family he is hitchhiking with gets into a serious accident.  The protagonist of its most famous story wanders into a graveyard during a snowstorm and sees angels descending, only to realize that he is actually in a drive-in movie theater. That story opens with the protagonist and the orderly Georgie working at a hospital that admits a man with a knife stuck through his one good eye. This collection, which contains "Dirty Wedding," "Car Crash While Hitchhiking," and (*) "Emergency," takes its name from the Velvet Underground song "Heroin" and consists of eleven interrelated stories centering on an unnamed drug addict known as Fuckhead. For 10 points, name this short story collection by Tree of Smoke author Dennis Johnson.
In one story from this collection, the narrator abandons his girlfriend Michelle at an abortion clinic and becomes sexually attracted to a man he randomly follows to a laundromat.
{Jesus’ Son}