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Searching for Jimmy Page

Hallbergcov

Searching for Jimmy Page

Authors & Illustrator

Author:

Christy
Alexander
Hallberg
Honorable Mention Book Award

Honorable Mention

> Fiction

Description

The unraveling of eighteen-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, music, and how they connect us with others and ourselves.