Ft. Lauderdale, 1997: Sun-burned tourists buy cheap T-shirts, white-legged geriatrics clog the highways, frat boys prowl the A1A strip, and Mark Reynolds is trying to understand how everything turned into quicksand. Mark fronts a band that seems to get bigger with each successive show, he writes a column in an independent weekly, and spends his days as part of the Scene, where beer and good people are never in short supply. This is the destination Mark has aimed for, the place all velocity and trajectory have deposited him. But why then does he wake up every day feeling worse than the day before? As the summer rolls relentlessly on, his band, his friends, the hanging-out -- it all seem increasingly bleak, until Mark reaches for the one thing that will set it all right, or ruin everything completely. These are the three weeks in August that will define the rest of his life, and irrevocably change the lives of his two best friends.
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By Steve Equi
Aug 19, 2005
"Wow" A friend of mine handed me this book, and I can't believe we hadn't heard from this guy before. Are you kidding me? He likes bands, bars, beer, and girls, and knows how to write about all of them -- in unique and gracefully underwrought fashion. And he knows how to tie each of them into deeper thematic memes that Mark traipses through like Marlon Brando (circa 2002 or so) plodding through an agility drill. Life HAPPENS to Mark, and we miss none of it here. And when Mark does decide to make something happen, it's just ear-splittingly important enough to twist the stakes in this story higher. Great, great stuff. Give us more.
