A story that stretches across the year I was born, wondering recklessly between historical fiction and psychedelic fantasy, populated with Rolling Stones, Syd Barrett, the Grateful Dead, David Bowie, Allen Ginsberg, an ancient soul and members of a somewhat supernatural sect of do-gooders. Utopia Avenue is the daydream of an unlikely rock band trying keep itself on the rails as it stumbles through the chaos of London, New York and 1960’s San Francisco. The music tears through the pages like Jimi Hendrix playing Machine Gun on a typewriter. The author of Cloud Atlas opens a trap door and you fall in. Utopia Avenue Rocks! The view is slightly better if you have already read the Bone Clocks and Slade House, but this trip will take you either way and the destination is far out!
Utopia Avenue
by David Mitchell
Publisher Random House
Publication Date: July 14th, 2020
592 Pages
ISBN 9780812997439