Luna Kane Connects with Her Mother Through a Search for Her Father in Christy Hallberg’s “Searching for Jimmy Page”
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In this episode 255, we visit with Christy Hallberg, author of “Searching for Jimmy Page,” a coming-of-age tale that takes the reader from eastern Carolina to the streets of London.
When Luna Kane recovers a memory of her dead mother—a mentally ill woman obsessed with Jimmy Page—she seeks a connection with her mother by searching for her father.
Liza Wieland, author of “Paris, 7 A.M.,” had this to say about the book, “”In her wondrous first novel, Christy Hallberg gives us a mystery, a mother-daughter love story, a paean to rock and roll, and a window into the culture of eastern North Carolina, all joined seamlessly by the elegance and poetry of her writing. It’s a book that begs to be read twice, first to find out the true story of Luna’s parentage, and then again, immediately but more slowly, to savor the beauty of the language.”
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About the Author:
Christy Alexander Hallberg is the author of the novel Searching For Jimmy Page, forthcoming fall 2021 from Livingston Press. She lives near Asheville, NC, and teaches literature and writing online at East Carolina University. She serves as Senior Associate Editor of North Carolina Literary Review. Her short fiction, creative nonfiction, book reviews, and interviews have appeared in such journals as North Carolina Literary Review, storySouth, Main Street Rag, Fiction Southeast, Riggwelter, Deep South Magazine, Eclectica, Litro, STORGY Magazine, Entropy, and Concho River Review. Her creative nonfiction essay “The Ballad of Evermore” was a finalist for the Sequestrum 2020 Editor’s Reprint Award. Her flash story “Aperture” was chosen Story of the Month by Fiction Southeast for October 2020, and was selected by the editors of the annual Best Small Fictions anthology series for the 2021 edition.
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“Steeped in rock and roll lore, Searching for Jimmy Page is the coming-of-age tale of a motherless daughter making sense of her grief, and finding the strength to save herself from the flood of loss that threatens to wash her future away. Hallberg’s prose is sumptuous and rich with detail, and readers will fall in love with tenacious Luna. Searching for Jimmy Page is a heartbreaking and hopeful debut.”
- Meagan Lucas, author of Songbirds & Stray Dogs
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