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Hot Wax

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It’s summer 1989. Ten-year-old Suzanne talks her way onto tour with her father Gil, a metal guitarist one break away from being somebody, and his band the Kills. She’s a music obsessive with a camera and no ability to play, and she watches the whole thing — the rivalry with the other guitarist, the drugs, the rooms getting bigger — until it ends in violence with her as the only witness. Twenty-nine years later, Gil dies and leaves her everything, and she walks out of a dull marriage and hits the road to find out what actually happened.

Hot Wax
By M. L. Rio. Simon & Schuster, 2025. 400 pages.