DAVID KUKOFF reads from CHILDREN OF THE CANYON

DAVID KUKOFF reads from CHILDREN OF THE CANYON

Start: 03/04/2014 7:30 pm

Children of the Canyon (Rebel ePublishers)

CHILDREN OF THE CANYON tells the story of David, a boy growing up in LA’s fabled Laurel Canyon neighborhood as the 1960s counterculture is coming to an end.
David’s record producer father works with the reclusive former leader of a surf music band on an album that promises to elevate the legacies of both men to immortal status. His distant, peripatetic mother rides the waves of activism and feminism in and out of David’s life. The elusive Topanga, named for the city’s last remaining Eden, whom David meets on the beach the night of his parents’ separation continues to elude his futile attempts to reconnect with her throughout the decade.

Through David’s eyes, we bear witness to the fallout from the California Dream’s malfunction: the ruined families, failed revolutionaries, curdled musical idealism, and, ultimately, the rise of the conservatism that put the country on its present path. 

A native Angeleno and graduate of Columbia University and UCLA Film School, David Kukoff has eleven produced film and television credits to his name. He has published two books on film and television writing, has been the subject of features in Variety, Entertainment Weekly, and The Hollywood Reporter, and has taught writing at Northwestern University. Children of the Canyon is his first novel. 

Date: 03/04/2014
Time: 7:30PM-9:30PM 
FREE
Location: Skylight Books
1818 N Vermont Ave
Los Angeles, California 90027
Phone: (323) 660-1175

http://www.skylightbooks.com/event/david-kukoff-reads-children-canyon