Slanted and Disenchanted

by Lisa Michaud

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Pub Date Sep 21 2021 | Archive Date Sep 15 2021

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New Adult | Teens & YA

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Description

She sort of hates her family. He’s hiding behind his teenage sex life. They form a band as an escape. On tour, can they start over....or will all secrets come out on the open road?

Carla Bucchio never cared about things like boyfriends and SATs. If she did, maybe life at 20 would be more exciting than developing photos on Long Island. When she chooses the guitar over a social life, it only makes sense because no one talks to her anyway.

Music may be Pete Albrecht’s life but what good is his talent if he has no one to share it with? When he’s not getting bitched about coffee at work, he’s getting nagged about college by his girlfriend. What would they say if they really knew about him? At the outset of the new millennium where boy bands and backup dancers have saturated pop culture, the two college dropouts start a rock band.

Despite his girlfriend’s manipulations and her mother’s drunken disapproval, they form a secret connection through the music. Before heading out on their cross-country tour, tragedy turns the world upside down forcing them to decide if the band is just a teenage dream or their gateway to freedom…and to each other?

Slanted and Disenchanted is the provocative first book in Lisa Czarina Michaud’s coming-of-age Disenchanted series.

Told with wry humor and nostalgic 90’s undertones, it’s High Fidelity with a YA bent that explores sexual tension in friendships, the confusion of adulting, the love and chaos of family….and the soundtracks that get us through it all.

This book is for people above 17+ (Adult Only)

She sort of hates her family. He’s hiding behind his teenage sex life. They form a band as an escape. On tour, can they start over....or will all secrets come out on the open road?

Carla Bucchio...

Advance Praise

"YA for Gex X...a journey through youth, second loves, and the power of connection through art."

Brett Sills, author of Shoveling Snow

"Slanted and Disenchanted crackles with the heart-pounding, meaning-seeking, garage rock energy of two young musicians. Carla and Pete are incredibly well-drawn, and their obsessive love of music is so palpable and real that you will hear every song and feel you’re right there on stage with them, rooting for them to fall headlong into the great unknown together. Michaud offers us a front-row ticket to an inspired, complex, and incredibly poignant live show. If you love a great story as much as I do, you won’t be able to look away from the stage or to put this book down, until you reach the final song."

Jason Allen, author of The East End

"The most musically infused story I've ever had the pleasure of devouring."

Corny O'Connell, WFUV Fordham University On-Air Host

"Slanted and Disenchanted conjures up the wistful daydreams and perpetual uncertainty that inspires young people to climb onto dingy stages in dive bars to make a joyful racket hoping for acceptance, respect, love, and just maybe enough gas money to make it to the next show."

Chris Appelgren, The PeeChees and owner, Lookout! Records

"Perfectly captures the way almost every young adult has ever felt: out of place, misunderstood, and desperate to find a home in someone else... Michaud infuses her branded humor into this nostalgic tale of young love, treating us to 90's references that Gen X'ers will appreciate, and those who "had to be there" will wish they had been a part of. This coming-of-age story is packed with passion, music, and a kind of hope that reminds you it's never too late to be who you truly want to be."

Cara Alwill, author of Girl On Fire and host of the Style Your Mind podcast