Hot Wax

Hot Wax is "a propulsive father-daughter story" (Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad) and a journey of self-discovery that "captures the joy and danger of rock `n` roll" (Publishers Weekly) through one woman`s reckless mission to make sense of the events that shattered her childhood. Summer, 1989: ten-year-old Suzanne is drawn like a magnet to her father`s forbidden world of electric guitars and tricked-out cars. When her mother remarries, she jumps at the chance to tag along on the concert tour that just might be Gil and the Kills` wild ride to glory. But fame has sharper fangs than anybody realized, and as the band blazes up the charts, internal power struggles set Gil and his group on a collision course destined for a bloody reckoning--one shrouded in mystery and lore for decades to come. The only witness to a desperate act of violence, Suzanne spends the next twenty-nine years trying to disappear. She trades the music and mayhem of her youth for the quiet of the suburbs and the company of her mild-mannered husband Rob. But when her father`s sudden death resurrects the troubled past she tried so hard to bury, she leaves it all behind and hits the road in search of answers. Hitching her fate and Gil`s beloved car to two vagabonds who call an old Airstream trailer home, she finds everything she thought she`d lost forever: desire, adventure, and the woman she once wanted to be. But Rob refuses to let her go. Determined to bring her back where she belongs, he chases her across the country--and drives her to a desperation all her own. Drenched in knock-down drag-out rock and roll, Hot Wax is a raucous, breakneck ride to hell and back--where getting lost might be the only way to find yourself and save your soul.