"Cultivating the Texas Twister Hybrid" is a coming of age novel, in the spirit of Portrait of the Artist as a Young Marijuana Grower tradition. Set in a little house on a prairie near Austin, Texas in 1977, the plot follows Walker, an over-educated slacker who moves onto a desolate farm under condition that he sharecrop marijuana. The surface story is about Walker's relationships: his apprenticeship to the master grower Greg, and his interaction...