Agent: Amy Williams, McCormick & Williams Literary Agency. Catherine is tired of struggling musicians befriending her just so they can get a gig at her Dad's famous Manhattan club, The Underground.
Catherine is tired of struggling musicians befriending her just so they. The climax at the gun-stocked home of Catherine’s angry brother, though clearly meant as a cleansing explosion of love and violence worthy of Emily Brontë, is melodramatic and abrupt. Read 302 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Unfortunately, Chelsea is fairly generic, and her romance with another young rocker (Hence’s protégé and heir) comes across as plot-driven, not organic. Lindner, whose Jane was a modernized retelling of Jane Eyre, capably streamlines the complex, gothic plot twists of the original as she depicts the passionate but ill-fated love between Catherine and Heathcliff stand-in Hence, a rock ragamuffin taken in by Catherine’s club owner father. Catherine April Lindner (Author) Catherine is tired of struggling musicians befriending her just so they can get a gig at her Dads famous Manhattan club, The. Told in two voices 20 years apart-those of Chelsea in the present and her mother, Catherine, when she was herself 17-the book updates Wuthering Heights with a downtown New York City rock club (think CBGB) standing in for the Yorkshire moors.
Immediately, Chelsea hops a bus to New York City and starts looking for more information. Digging through old boxes one bored day in the ’burbs, 17-year-old Chelsea discovers that the mother she thought was dead actually disappeared when Chelsea was three. April Lindner is the author of three Young Adult novels (JANE, CATHERINE, and the forthcoming LOVE, LUCY) and two poetry collections (This Bed Our Bodies.
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