PAGES: 270
DIMENSIONS:6 x 1 x 8.75 Inches
FORMAT: Softcover
AUTHOR(S): Christy Alexander HallbergMusic and madness merge as a young girl searches for her identity in the wake of a family tragedy in Christy Alexander Hallberg’s SEARCHING FOR JIMMY PAGE.

Narrator Luna Kane is on a grief-fueled mission: find elusive guitar god Jimmy Page and ask if he is her father. Luna packs her bags for the misty mountains and becomes a traveler of both time and space, walking a precarious line between personal growth and self-destruction on her pilgrimage from North Carolina to Pages home(s) in England. Lunas quest is as flawed as Quixotes, yet she ultimately finds the answersand familyshe seeks.

SEARCHING FOR JIMMY PAGE by Christy Alexander Halberg is set in 1988 after the death of Lunas great-grandfather propels teenage Luna to investigate her mothers suicide years earlier. The identity of Lunas father is a mystery. Single mom Claudia wont say but hints it might be guitar wizard Jimmy Page. But Claudia battles mental illness, often locking herself in her bedroom and blasting the offbeat Zep deep track, Four Sticks on her stereo, much to her young daughters bewilderment and terror. One day Claudia retreats to her bedroom armed with her fathers old service revolver and doesnt come out. Hallberg looks at the devastation of mental illness and suicide through the eyes of a child, a young adult, a parent, and even a grandparent, which minimizes some family transgressions while amplifying others.

Hallbergs masterful storytelling skills are further elevated by her beautifully crafted prose. Flowery language can pull readers out of a storys flow, but Hallberg uses it to deftly draw readers deeper into the mystique of Led Zeppelin at the height of the bands power. SEARCHING FOR JIMMY PAGE is woven through with Zeppelin mythology that fans of the band will love. But its Lunas humanity and heartbreak that ultimately strikes a chord and resonates with readers.While the coda feels a bit forced, the rest of SEARCHING FOR JIMMY PAGE is an emotional journey as captivating as any symphonyor hard rock anthem.

In SEARCHING FOR JIMMY PAGE skilled author Christy Alexander Hallberg creates a tense family dramaset against a background of early Led Zeppelin albumsabout grief in the wake of a young mothers suicide.A moving family drama with a rock n roll heart.

~Rob Errera for IndieReader