For a night of propulsive fiction and music with New York Times bestselling author M.L. Rio, don’t miss this San Diego celebration of Hot Wax!
Join us at the Neil Morgan Auditorium, San Diego Central Library @ Joan Λ Irwin Jacobs Common for a compelling, rock-and-roll, ticketed literary event in collaboration with Mysterious Galaxy. Tickets include a copy of the book and seating for up to two guests. Your book order will be available for pickup at Library Shop SD any time after Hot Wax is officially published on September 9th, or at the event on October 6. Proceeds from tickets and books purchased with Library Shop SD support the San Diego Public Library. Meet M.L. Rio, get your copy of Hot Wax signed, and get your photo taken with one of our favorite authors.
About the Book:
From the cult favorite, bestselling author of If We Were Villains and Graveyard Shift comes this new novel — a vivid and immersive tale of one woman’s reckless mission to make sense of the events that both shattered her childhood and define her.
In 1989, ten-year-old Suzanne idolizes her father’s world of electric guitars and tricked-out cars. When her mother remarries, she jumps at the chance to tag along on the concert tour that just might be Gil and the Kills’ wild ride to glory. But fame has sharp fangs, and as the band blazes up the charts, internal power struggles set Gil and his group on a collision course destined for a bloody reckoning— one shrouded in mystery and lore for decades to come.
The only witness to a desperate act of violence, Suzanne spends the next twenty-nine years trying to disappear. But when her father’s sudden death resurrects a troubled past she tried so hard to bury, she hits the road in search of answers.
Drenched in knock-down drag-out rock and roll, Hot Wax is a raucous ride to hell and back.
“Sensory and visceral, Hot Wax is a propulsive father-daughter story infused with rock and roll down to its very cadences. M. L Rio is a force to be reckoned with.” —Jennifer Egan
