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. "Can you hear the music?" His words trigger 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 in order to weave her own personal narrative, Luna embarks on a pilgrimage ...
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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. "Can you hear the music?" His words trigger 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 in order 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, Jimmy Page.
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Searching for Jimmy Page� is the first novel by author Christy Alexander Hallberg and I, for one, hope it will not be the last. This is a wonderful story that is part mystery, part family dynamics both past and present, part historical fiction, and a window into the world of music. It is one that should not be missed whether you are a Zeppelin fan or just a fan of excellent writing.
This is the story of 18-year-old Luna Kane and her emotional journey into the truth about her familyââ?¬â?¢s past and her motherââ?¬â?¢s suicide. The book takes place during the 80ââ?¬â?¢s and at the start, we meet Luna who is in her last year of high school and living in a small town in North Carolina with her grandmother. As her great-grandfather, a faith healer, is dying he asks Luna if she can ââ?¬Å"hear the music?ââ?¬Â? This, in turn, sparks memories in Luna of her motherââ?¬â?¢s obsession with Jimmy Page, the lead guitar player for Led Zeppelin. Lunaââ?¬â?¢s mother suffered from severe depression and Luna remembers when her mother would have one of her bad periods, she would lock herself in a room and listen to the bandââ?¬â?¢s music for days on end.
As more memories surface for Luna, she finds herself hearing in her head many conversations she had with her mother long ago as she tries to figure out what was truly bothering her mother and how it was tied to Jimmy Page. This time spent trying to understand her past and what happened leads Luna on a journey of self-discovery that goes from this small North Carolina town all the way to Europe in the hopes of finding some answers.
ââ?¬Å"Searching for Jimmy Pageââ?¬Â? is an amazing story that is incredibly well-written. Ms. Hallberg weaves the story together in such a perfect and, I must say, haunting way, and there is no chance that anyone, a fan of music or not, will not enjoy every single moment of the story. Luna is such an engaging character, and the author has made her very real to the readers. There is no way readers will not feel Lunaââ?¬â?¢s pain and joy during her journey. This is a character who takes on a lot at a young age and alone, but it truly feels believable on every page, and I loved that part. In addition, the characters that do come into the story to support Luna on her journey are wonderful and such a perfect addition to the story and to Lunaââ?¬â?¢s search for answers.
ââ?¬Å"Searching for Jimmy Pageââ?¬Â? by Christy Alexander Hallberg is a perfectly crafted novel, impressive for a first book, that I am sure will delight all readers. As we follow Luna and feel her heartbreak and her joy, we are taken on a riveting voyage into a different world, and it is one that is so well worth it. I would recommend this book to everyone and cannot wait to see what this new author has in store for us next time.
