Title: Open Your Eyes, Jackson Ryder
Description: America in the 1960s. Young Jackson Ryder is dragged from New York by a grieving father and thrust into the thriving melting-pot that is San Sebastiano, California. The rise of English Rock and the volatile political environment of JFK's assassination are the vibrant background to the beautiful summer vista that holds only secrets. Jackson and Ray become fast friends but with girls, cars and everyday bigotry weaving a complicated web around them, solace is found in the most surprising of places.
Subjects: Grief in adolescence, Juvenile fiction, Families, Fathers and sons, Art students