β Scribed by Justin Tussing
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Winner of the 2017 Maine Literary Award for Fiction β’ One of Amazon's Best Books of the Month, April 2016
"Justin Tussing rocks the rock novel.Vexation Lullaby is pure raw pleasure from start to finish." βLily King, author of Euphoria
Peter Silver is a young doctor treading water in the wake of a breakupβhis ex-girlfriend called him a "mama's boy" and his best friend considers him a "homebody," a squanderer of adventure. But when he receives an unexpected request for a house call, he obliges, only to discover that his new patient is aging, chameleonic rock star Jimmy Cross. Soon Peter is compelled to join the mysteriously ailing celebrity, his band, and his entourage, on the road. The so-called "first physician embedded in a rock tour," Peter is thrust into a way of life that embraces disorder and risk rather than order and discipline.
Trailing the band at every tour stop is Arthur Pennyman, Cross's number-one fan. Pennyman has not missed a performance in twenty years, sacrificing his family and job to chronicle every show on his website. Cross insists that "being a fan is how we teach ourselves to love," and, in the end, Pennyman does learn. And when he hears a mythic, as-yet-unperformed song he starts to piece together the puzzle of Peter's role in Cross's past.
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