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Kinetic Blue
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 31 2024
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.52 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A novel of identity, the allure of rebellion and conformity, and the enduring legacy of the 1980s.
Paul Kevin Wood's KINETIC BLUE is an engaging and dynamic story with a likeable protagonist who guides the reader through his journey to adulthood. A beautiful homage to the eighties and the highs and lows of growing up - IndieReader
Wood writes with an easy, conversational style and his recreation of 1980s Southern California is one of the novel's highlights. The music, social attitudes and cultural references create a vivid sense of time and place that gives the story much of its charm. - The BookLife Prize Kinetic Blue is a vivid coming-of-age journey set against the sun-soaked backdrop of coastal Southern California. Hans, a gifted student, swimmer, and emerging cultural observer, navigates the shifting sands of adolescence-from high school Model United Nations simulations, a summer working at Disneyland, college parties, and attending school with the privileged and spoiled. Along the way, he confronts questions of love, ambition, identity, and belonging.As Hans moves through high school, college, and then law school, the novel captures not just the trials of growing up in the rhythms of a decade shaped by music videos, the Reagan revolution, punk rebellion, the HIV crisis, and the shadows of terrorism and the Cold War. With a soundtrack worthy of a mixtape, Kinetic Blue paints a nostalgic and deeply personal portrait of a young man coming to terms with who he is and who he's expected to be.
Kinetic Blue is both a love letter to 1980s California and a bold exploration of cultural transformation, set in a time when the world-and its youth- redefined everything.
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