About The Driftwood Tour
Waking up from a coma handcuffed to a Tokyo hospital bed is bad enough. But failing to remember his own songs is the final straw for Wood, stage name Driftwood.
Stuck in Japan until the trial, he thinks of everything that brought him to that point. Wood traverses the rock scene of the late 1990s – the American South, Europe, and the former Soviet Union – with his bandmate, Jesse, their exhausted manager, Rachel, and a Bassett Hound named Margaret. Through hilarious bar brawls, cattle prods, voodoo rituals, and acid trips, the characters explore themes of race, sexuality, family, love, and death.
And in the most frightening moment of his life, hope. Hope to connect with the absent father he so desperately wants to know and fill the terrible emptiness where his songs used to be.
“Despite the train wreck that is Wood, he has this charm that you can’t help but be drawn to. Chaotically intoxicating, I could not look away and was completely mesmerized.”
-Christi Flores, Library Thing
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JP Lane played bass for Policy, Village Drums, and The Dancing Nancys. He travelled to Moscow and Kazakhstan following the breakup of the USSR. He taught English in Tokyo for four years, where he struggled with recycling. He holds a master’s degree from Indiana University and lives in Sacramento, California with his wife, children, and a Basset Hound named Margaret Thatcher. He is the author of Painting the Grand Homes of California’s Central Valley. The Driftwood Tour is his first novel.
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