This debut novel has gotten a ton of buzz, and won quite a few awards. The Final Revival of Opal and Nev is also a super slow burn. The first third of the book is an oral history of the eponymous band. The reader gathers that Opal & Nev were in many ways ahead of their time, an interracial proto-punk duo that should never have worked, but influenced the musical scene far beyond the two albums they released. We also gather that something really bad […]