The Bad Decisions Playlist

“Funny and painful, it’s a sharply etched portrait of fallible human beings living, loving, screwing up, and making do.” —Publishers Weekly

Sixteen-year-old Austin is always messing up and then joking his way out of tough spots. The sudden appearance of his allegedly dead father, who happens to be the very-much-alive rock star Shane Tyler, stops him cold. Austin—a talented musician himself—is sucked in to his newfound father’s alluring music-biz orbit. None of Austin’s previous bad decisions...