A Light Rain of Grace

A Light Rain of Grace is an insider's tour of a rock star's life outside the spotlight. Spanning the years 1967 to 1992, the novel careens through the heyday of the Haight Ashbury rock & roll scene, into the drug taking and general madness of a band on the road, and collides with the death squads of El Salvador in the 1980s.

Emma Allison has been on the fast track for eight years. Raped by a family friend at age thirteen, she becomes a drug addict and learns to always be in control in her relationships with men. She and her best friend/publicist, Carol, tour the world and go through one man after another in the spirit of playfulness prevalent in the San Francisco scene of the sixties and early seventies. Their escapades are often hilarious as they are living the rock star dream, but the drug abuse eventually catches up with them and tragedy strikes.