One for the Books: A rock star reunion

The Final Revival of Opal and Nev by Dawnie Walton is a different kind of book. It’s a fictional rock-and-roll biography that often reads like the script of a biopic, with plenty of details to give it life. Most of it is in the form of interviews.

Narrator S. Sunny Shelton tells us she’s putting together this book about the upcoming reunion of two rock stars from the 1970s. Sunny, the editor of a rock magazine, has a bizarre connection with Opal: Opal once had an affair with Sunny’s father. So her motivation is personal curiosity as well as music history as she sets out to interview as many people who knew them or worked with them as she can find.