Wonderkid

In a novel that is equal parts Almost Famous, That Thing You Do, and The Family Fang, musician and author Stace (Charles Jessold, Considered as a Murderer) has taken the unpredictable lifestyle of rock and roll and given it a twist. After years of living in an orphanage and foster home, teenager Edward Sweet finds himself the newly adopted son of a children's music superstar, Blake Lear. Blake is the front man for the band The Wonderkids, which has found massive success playing nonsensical songs for children. Their concerts are wild performances filled with props, feathers, and toddler mosh pits, but backstage, it's your stereotypical rock scene filled with drugs, arguments among band members, and sex with mom-groupies. Edward spends his formative teenage years learning the ins and outs of life on tour and, in later years, coping with the dysfunctional relationships formed from these lessons. As Blake's initially endearing, wacky behavior and ideas eventually start to unravel and become more unstable than genius, the band slowly falls apart.