Recensori in anteprima

He’s a rock star who can’t remember his own songs…and his only hope is a Japanese kid who hates his music.

Waking up from a coma handcuffed to a Tokyo hospital bed is bad enough. Being arrested for assault is worse. But failing to remember his own songs is the final straw for Wood, stage name Driftwood.

Stuck in Tokyo until the trial, he thinks of everything that brought him to that point. Wood traverses the rock scene of the late 1990s – the American South, Europe, the former Soviet Union, and Tokyo – with his bandmate, Jesse, their exhausted manager, Rachel, and a condescending Bassett Hound. Through bar brawls, cattle prods, voodoo rituals, acid trips, and fights over the TV remote, the characters explore themes of race, sexuality, fame, love, and death.

And in the most frightening moment of his life, hope. Hope to rebuild his life with the help of a young woman he met in Tokyo, and a Japanese guitar player who helps fill the terrible emptiness where his songs used to be.

An engaging whirlwind of a novel – The Driftwood Tour is a love letter to musicians and music lovers across the globe.