Chasing Stardust - by Erica Lucke Dean (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

A funny and heartfelt novel about learning who your parents are as people, finding yourself, and falling in love in the strangest places--with a David Bowie soundtrack of a lifetime.

A crazy promise is still a promise. Zoey Jones is spreading her late mother's ashes along a path her eccentric grandma G-Lo followed in 1972: David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust tour. G-Lo was no ordinary groupie. According to her, Zoey's mom was conceived somewhere between Memphis and Malibu, and Zoey's grandpa is the glam rock icon himself. Revving up G-Lo's old Cutlass, complete with her mother's journal and a Ziggy Stardust 8-track, Zoey hits the open road.

After breaking down outside Nashville, Zoey is weighing her next move when she makes an immediate connection with Dash Hammond at an all-night diner. Dash is a college graduate fleeing the expectations of his family just as fiercely as Zoey tries to make sense of her own family's colorful past. He offers to drive Zoey on the remainder of a life-changing road trip, and it's more epic than Zoey ever dreamed.

What lies ahead is a cross-country journey of self-discovery, first love, glittering revelations, and finding the heart of a rebel that's been beating inside Zoey the whole time.

Review Quotes

"Chasing Stardust is a sweet, funny, and emotional journey that leaves you feeling inspired (and maybe humming a little Bowie along the way)." --Kelly Stone Gamble, USA Today bestselling author of They Call Me Crazy

"A witty romp through rock and roll lore and collective grief that warmly encompasses the things we do to connect with our loved ones, even the ones we aren't sure we like." --Lesley Gray Streeter, Author of Life & Other Calamities

"A young woman's pilgrimage to spread her mother's ashes along the route of a long-ago David Bowie tour becomes something more than fulfilling a dying wish. With humor and a keen eye for life's bittersweet moments, Erica Lucke Dean crafts a road trip story, a mother-daughter tale, and a coming-of-age narrative all rolled into one glitter-dusted package. Chasing Stardust is funny, fast-paced, and full of heart." --Jennifer Klepper, USA Today bestselling author of The Last Road Trip