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Dawnie Walton, author of The Final Revival of Opal & Nev

Coming of age in Detroit, Opal believes she can be a star. So when the aspiring British singer/songwriter Neville Charles discovers her at a bar’s amateur night, she takes him up on his offer to make rock music together for the fledgling Rivington Records. In early ’70s New York City, just as she’s finding her niche as part of a flamboyant and funky creative scene, a rival band signed to her label brandishes a Confederate flag at a promotional concert. Decades later, as Opal considers a 2016 reunion with Nev, music journalist S. Sunny Shelton seizes the chance to curate an oral history about her idols. But as her interviews dig deeper, a nasty new allegation from an unexpected source threatens to blow up everything.

Week of March 21, 2022

Paperback releases for the week of March 21st include HOLLYWOOD PARK, a remarkable memoir of the tumultuous life of Mikel Jollett, who was born into one of the country’s most infamous cults and subjected to a childhood filled with poverty, addiction and emotional abuse; Dawnie Walton's THE FINAL REVIVAL OF OPAL & NEV, an electrifying novel about the meteoric rise of an iconic interracial rock duo in the 1970s, their sensational breakup, and the dark secrets unearthed when they try to reunite decades later for one last tour; BEFORE THE RUINS by Victoria Gosling, a gripping, multilayered debut in the tradition of Donna Tartt and Tana French about four friends, an abandoned manor and one fateful night that will follow them for the rest of their lives; and Homeira Qaderi's DANCING IN THE MOSQUE, an exquisite and inspiring memoir about one mother’s unimaginable choice in the face of oppression and abuse in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.