One forgotten song can change everything for those whose story began at a 1970 rock and roll festival.
As the 1970s dawn, newly orphaned eighteen-year-old guitarist Cal clutches Mama’s leftover painkillers and contemplates the worst, when he hears Hendrix will play at the Second Atlanta Pop Festival. His first--and last--escape into sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll--or, er, peace, love, and music? He delays the devastating idea.
There, he meets also-grieving, Beatles-loving, adventurous eighteen-year-old Nainsi, from County Dublin, who wants to do what her late Ma never got to: build her own music career in America. Yet love changes everything, as does an exploding world, and just as she chooses between family, religion, country, and her own dreams, Cal makes a rash, drunken choice of his own. It becomes his deepest regret. What happened all those years ago?
Spanning the 1970s and 1980s, told amid a historic backdrop of conflicts, with an ode to the legendary artists and singer-songwriters of 1970s yesteryear, this heartwarming novel--part coming-of-age, part regrets of middle age-- is more than a story about a secret. YESTERDAY’S SONG explores recovery from loss, the definition of family, the necessity of love, and the nature of forgiveness and redemption.
Maybe it’s never too late for the enduring, healing, and connecting power of timeless tunes to find your voice and reunite you with others…if you can just get back to the heart of it all.
What if hope were right under our--ears? #
Note to readers: it's ready for your book club with questions and a fun, diverse, and pensive 1970s playlist, with one-hit wonders and legendary musicians and bands showing everyone has a voice! This novel will ask your book club, just like the great songs: What becomes of the broken-hearted? How can you mend a broken heart? Where do broken hearts go? How to save a life?
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