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It's 3:00 a.m. in the side yard of an shack in the worst part of town. I've received a dirty-faced baby on my hip, and there are a pit bull sitting on the septic container within the next backyard over, barking his mind off. My patient rests on the hood of her ex-husband's lowrider, smoking a cigarette and dumping her pills into a mud gap by the right entry tire. Airbrushed across the hood of the car is a cross-eyed Jesus with open biceps and triceps. She lays her palm together with his as the still-hot engine motor ticks. Through tears she pleads, "Help me, Jesus, please." The dog is silent. Sirens methodology. "Just inhale," I inform her. "Everything's gonna be all right." The infant fidgets, resting her mind against me, staring up into my eye. I increase one finger, and she keeps it firm. I fumble for the words again. "Just inhale." Midnight Jesus shares attractive, bizarre, and sometimes hilarious true-life stories of people looking for anticipation in their darkest hours. Poignant and unpretentious, Jamie paints beauty where at times it seems none is present - from skating rinks and pubs to late-night highways and lonesome apartments, broken churches and run-down truck parks, jail skin cells, bridge rails, ERs, psych wards, and that place above the levee where God laughs and walks through the cool, dark night time.
