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YOU CAN SAY YOU KNEW ME WHEN
By: K. M. Soehnlein
Kensington
December 2006
On Sale: October 31, 2006
416 pages
ISBN: 0758207999
EAN: 9780758207999
Trade Size (reprint)
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Romance Contemporary
Charming underachiever Jamie Garner is living a sexy slackerβs life in San Francisco during the dot-com boomβ avoiding his stalled career as a radio producer, barely holding on to his relationship, but surrounded by fun- loving friends. And then Jamie gets the call heβs always dreaded: Teddy, the father who never accepted him, has died. Itβs time for the prodigal son to come home to the subdivisions and strip malls of suburban New Jersey to face the emotionally barren family he left behind years ago. Caught between the guilt he wants to shake and the grief he canβt express, Jamie takes solace in a box of memorabilia he finds in the attic, marked β1960,β the year his father spent in San Francisco but kept secret. Jamie is especially drawn to a moody, enigmatic photo of the stunning Dean Foster, his dadβs closest friend, who headed west then mysteriously disappeared. Determined to unlock the mystery of his father, Jamie seeks out the artists and poets, the free spirits and wild men mentioned in Teddyβs letters to Dean. Itβs a journey that takes him deep into the subcultures of San Francisco, from the bohemian heyday of the Beat Generation through the Internet mania of his contemporary world, even as it unleashes something primal, hungry, and slightly dangerous in Jamie. As his search for the elusive Dean Foster turns ever more obsessive, undermining his friendships, his income, and his fidelity to his partner, Jamie is forced to decide what he is willing to risk in the pursuit of the truth.
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