Christy Alexander Hallberg and Searching for Jimmy Page
Author Christy Alexander Hallberg with her novel Searching for Jimmy Page and a Coors
About the Book: The unraveling of 18-year-old Luna Kane’s haunted past begins in the winter of 1988, when her dying great-grandfather, a self-proclaimed faith healer, claims he hears phantom owls crying in the night. “Them owls, like music. Can you hear the music?” he implores her in his final moments, triggering Luna’s repressed memory of her dead mother’s obsession with Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin’s legendary guitar wizard. Desperate to learn the truth about her mother’s suicide, to tease fact from family lore to weave her own personal narrative, Luna embarks on a pilgrimage from her family’s farm in the pines of eastern North Carolina to England, to search for the man whose music her mother held sacred. 'Searching for Jimmy Page' is a story about grief and identity and the power of art and music and how they connect us to others and ourselves.
About the Beverage: Christy recommends pairing her novel with a Coors beer because “the protagonist of 'Searching for Jimmy Page', 18-year-old Luna Kane, and her best friend, Connie, often nab a six-pack from Connie's dad's stash and sneak off to party. Coors--more specifically, can after can of Coors--is Luna's drink of choice, especially after she drifts deeper and deeper into the solitary act of plotting her secret journey from her home in North Carolina to England.”
About the Author: Christy Alexander Hallberg is the author of the award-winning novel 'Searching for Jimmy Page' (Livingston Press, 2021) and host of Rock is Lit, the first and only podcast devoted to rock novels, from Pantheon Podcast Network. She is a Teaching Professor of English at East Carolina University and serves as Senior Associate Editor of 'North Carolina Literary Review'. Her fiction, creative nonfiction, book reviews, and interviews have appeared in many journals, including 'storySouth', 'Still: The Journal', 'Fiction Southeast', and 'Eclectica'. Find her at www.christyalexanderhallberg.com/ and on Twitter/Instagram/YouTube @ChristyHallberg.
SEARCHING FOR JIMMY PAGE is available on Amazon. Paperback is also available at your local indie bookstore. Audiobook is available on Amazon, Audible, and iTunes.
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Website: https://www.christyalexanderhallberg.com/
Publisher: https://livingstonpress.uwa.edu/
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