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Chasing Stardust
Josie Bennett is an aspiring indie musician (and functioning alcoholic), struggling hard to make it in an industry where visuals and shock are valued over talent. That is, until she meets Isaak, a stone-faced and tired record label executive who wants nothing more than to help her, if only for his own selfish reasons. Reasons which he can’t find within himself to accept, and, unbeknownst to him, are also mutual. And Josie’s best friend, Emily, doesn’t trust him to have her best interests at heart — not like she has, from the very beginning. Then, Alicia Fox, the nation’s biggest name in pop music, wants Josie to write some songs for an upcoming album. Doing so with Isaak’s help, Josie must navigate her own feelings and troubled past while simultaneously figuring out his.
261 pages, Paperback
Published July 1, 2021
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March 23, 2026
From the Amazon review (which is totally true, btw): A funny and heartfelt novel about learning who your parents are as people, finding yourself, and falling in love in the strangest places―with a David Bowie soundtrack of a lifetime.
From the synopsis: A crazy promise is still a promise. Zoey Jones is spreading her late mother’s ashes along a path her eccentric grandma G-Lo followed in 1972: David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust tour. G-Lo was no ordinary groupie. According to her, Zoey’s mom was conceived somewhere between Memphis and Malibu, and Zoey’s grandpa is the glam rock icon himself. Revving up G-Lo’s old Cutlass, complete with her mother’s journal and a Ziggy Stardust 8-track, Zoey hits the open road.
After breaking down outside Nashville, Zoey is weighing her next move when she makes an immediate connection with Dash Hammond at an all-night diner. Dash is a college graduate fleeing the expectations of his family just as fiercely as Zoey tries to make sense of her own family’s colorful past. He offers to drive Zoey on the remainder of a life-changing road trip, and it’s more epic than Zoey ever dreamed.
What lies ahead is a cross-country journey of self-discovery, first love, glittering revelations, and finding the heart of a rebel that’s been beating inside Zoey the whole time.
Gosh, this was *so* much better than I thought it would be. It's not a 'deep, philosophical' book, but it still makes you think about how much 'risk' you're comfortable with and how muvh you know about your own history.
I loved Zoey and Dash. I loved the relationship between Zoey and her sister and their grandmother.
Even though we never met Dash's parents, you got enough information to pretty much despise them both - at least, I did. Your mileage may vary.
Following along on Zoey's roadtrip (and her mom's 30 years earlier), you get a sense of how much (and how little in some places) our country has changed. When I was growing up, our family drove from Los Angeles, CA to Vermont every 2 or 3 years. One year we'd take the norther route and the Sioux Ste Marie into Canada and see Niagara Falls from the Canadian side, the travel Rte 66 on the way home. Another year we'd head south and east, stopping in Albuquerque to visit a college friend of mom's, then up the Atlantic coast to visit my half-sister in VA. Unless we had other people (a neighbor we dropped off in Brooklyn one year or other relatives), dad never wanted to stop and see much. Now, I kinda wished hubby and I had coordinated our vacations better so we could have traveled more with our kids even if we didn't go as far as Zoey did. California to Oregon and Washington or Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado and Utah would've been nice.
I thought this was going to be a 'one-and-done', but it's definitely not. Gotta share with the gals at my dentist's office and then read it again a few times.
Enjoy!!!
From the synopsis: A crazy promise is still a promise. Zoey Jones is spreading her late mother’s ashes along a path her eccentric grandma G-Lo followed in 1972: David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust tour. G-Lo was no ordinary groupie. According to her, Zoey’s mom was conceived somewhere between Memphis and Malibu, and Zoey’s grandpa is the glam rock icon himself. Revving up G-Lo’s old Cutlass, complete with her mother’s journal and a Ziggy Stardust 8-track, Zoey hits the open road.
After breaking down outside Nashville, Zoey is weighing her next move when she makes an immediate connection with Dash Hammond at an all-night diner. Dash is a college graduate fleeing the expectations of his family just as fiercely as Zoey tries to make sense of her own family’s colorful past. He offers to drive Zoey on the remainder of a life-changing road trip, and it’s more epic than Zoey ever dreamed.
What lies ahead is a cross-country journey of self-discovery, first love, glittering revelations, and finding the heart of a rebel that’s been beating inside Zoey the whole time.
Gosh, this was *so* much better than I thought it would be. It's not a 'deep, philosophical' book, but it still makes you think about how much 'risk' you're comfortable with and how muvh you know about your own history.
I loved Zoey and Dash. I loved the relationship between Zoey and her sister and their grandmother.
Even though we never met Dash's parents, you got enough information to pretty much despise them both - at least, I did. Your mileage may vary.
Following along on Zoey's roadtrip (and her mom's 30 years earlier), you get a sense of how much (and how little in some places) our country has changed. When I was growing up, our family drove from Los Angeles, CA to Vermont every 2 or 3 years. One year we'd take the norther route and the Sioux Ste Marie into Canada and see Niagara Falls from the Canadian side, the travel Rte 66 on the way home. Another year we'd head south and east, stopping in Albuquerque to visit a college friend of mom's, then up the Atlantic coast to visit my half-sister in VA. Unless we had other people (a neighbor we dropped off in Brooklyn one year or other relatives), dad never wanted to stop and see much. Now, I kinda wished hubby and I had coordinated our vacations better so we could have traveled more with our kids even if we didn't go as far as Zoey did. California to Oregon and Washington or Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado and Utah would've been nice.
I thought this was going to be a 'one-and-done', but it's definitely not. Gotta share with the gals at my dentist's office and then read it again a few times.
Enjoy!!!
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