Publisher's Synopsis
Los Angeles, 1962: surf's up, but Tom Beck is going nowhere. Surf is an asylum from his fractured childhood, and he falls for the most beautiful girl on the beach. Georgia's out of his league, but he doesn't care-his prayers for a happier life have been answered at last. He opens a shop with his best friend, selling boards for enough money to pop the question-but it turns out Georgia has other plans.The Sunlight Zone is a romantic thriller, a love song to the madness of mid-century America, the Beach Boys and the Gidget Paradox, Jews and film, Dick Dale and Angeleno architecture, the Twilight Zone, Surf Nazis, time and space, sharks and backtalk. You'll never think about surf the same way again.
