My latest novel, THE
GREAT AMERICAN SCRAPBOOK (Americana #5), will launch on November 7
(7pm) at Magers & Quinn Booksellers in Uptown Minneapolis.
(Details will certainly follow.)
Beginning with
George W. Bush's “Mission Accomplished” speech of May 1, 2003 and
culminating on Election Night '04, The Great American Scrapbook
follows more important things
like Brock McCoy falling in love, the perils of three fictional
Minneapolis rock 'n' roll bands, and two long-lost siblings' efforts
to maintain the historical significance of a newspaper woman murdered
in the 1920s.
Brock,
31, lives in his mother's basement near Lake Harriet. Newly returned from Toronto, he
stumbles into a gig as bass player in an all-girl rock band. He falls
in love with Jenna on lead guitar. Back home he does what he can to
ease the burden on his sister Nancy and her Gulf War I-related PTSD,
as well as comfort his mother and her back that just won't heal. On a
table in the basement is an old scrapbook that Brock helps Peaches
try to turn into something publishable.
Oh, did I mention they solve the mystery of D.B. Cooper?
Like
my other books, we celebrate real-life characters in The
Great American Scrapbook,
most notably Brock's bandmates Kevin Foley, Steve Foley and Kevin
Calhoun Hazlett, as well as celebrities still among us like Sherwin
Linton, Johnny Rey, and Bill Murray in his role as part-owner of the Saint Paul Saints.
Please
stop by on November 7 (before packing for Canada) and give a listen
to the reading and whatever else transpires. Thanks!
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