Waiting On Wednesday: Save Me, Kurt Cobain

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly feature hosted by Breaking The Spine. It basically is where you share upcoming releases that your anxious about or books that are on your TBR list that you haven't gotten around to yet.

Save Me, Kurt Cobain

Jenny Manzer

Release date: March 8th, 2016

Delacorte Press

Goodreads Description:

"What if you discovered that Kurt Cobain was not only alive, but might be your real father? This nuanced and bittersweet YA debut will keep you guessing until the end.

Nico Cavan has been adrift since her mother vanished when she was four—maternal abandonment isn’t exactly something you can just get over. Staying invisible at school is how she copes—that and listening to alt music and summoning spirits on the Ouija board with her best friend and coconspirator in sarcasm, Obe. But when a chance discovery opens a window onto her mom’s wild past, it sparks an idea in her brain that takes hold and won’t let go. On a
ferry departing Seattle, Nico encounters a slight blond guy with piercing blue eyes wearing a hooded jacket. Something in her heart tells her that this feeling she has might actually be the truth, so she follows him to a remote cabin in the Pacific Northwest. When she is stranded there by a winter storm, fear and darkness collide, and the only one who can save Nico might just be herself."

I'm excited about this one for a number of reasons! First and foremost, I absolutely love Kurt Cobain. Nirvana is one of my all time favorite bands. I just think it's weird in the best way that this Young Adult fiction book is mentioning him. Another reason why I'm excited is because I read an early review on Goodreads from author Laurie Flynn (I'm also looking forward to her debut coming out next year but I'll save that for another week) that was beyond beautiful. She wrote, "Music has a lot of powers. It soothes and it incites, motivates and empowers, empathizes and hurts, sometimes makes us feel that we’re less alone. For fans, music can be a companion, a friend, an escape. But does music have the power to save someone? That’s one of the themes in Jenny Manzer’s riveting debut, SAVE ME, KURT COBAIN."

So I can't wait for this book to come out next year!