Garage Band
Published: 2008
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781598586619
Subjects: Relationships; Rock and Roll; Marin County
Genres: Fiction
First sentence: It’s 11 PM and you pull in front of her house.

“I had a good time,” you tell her. “Thanks for the date.”

“This wasn’t a date,” she says.

“Then what the hell was it?”

“I had fun,” she says. “Can’t two people hang out without calling it a date?”
Description: Frustrated in his relationships with women, Kyle Waite, gardener and harmonica player, immerses himself in his buddy Joe’s Garage band. With an overweight bass man, a two-timing percussionist, a keyboardist who sticks safety pins in his face, and Joe, a happy-go-lucky guitarist, the music is the dream.  As the commercial success of the band seems imminent, and Kyle begins to find true love, a chain of harrowing events threatens to doom the garage band and forever change the lives of its members.  

Garage Band is a gripping coming-of-age story that takes place in California’s Marin County in the 1980s. Both heartbreaking and hilarious, it’s an irreverent tale that covers the gauntlet from joy to sorrow; from the innocence and recklessness of youth to the blessed illusions we have about ourselves.
Notes: Online Reviews:
http://rockandrollreport.com/book-review-garage-band-by-s-f-lynch/
http://blogcritics.org/books/article/book-review-garage-band-by-s/
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