Runaway Train Blog Tour and Giveaway

Happy Book Birthday to Runaway Train by Lee Matthew Goldberg! I’m so happy and honored to be a part of the Xpresso Book Tours blog tour celebrating this poignant, heartbreaking and emotional book that is also a love letter to grunge music! Enter the Rafflecopter Giveaway for chance to win your own copy!

Synopsis

They told me I was an out-of-control train about to crash…
 
Everything changed when the police officer knocked on the door to tell me – a 16-year-old – that my older sister Kristen had died of a brain aneurysm. Cue the start of my parents neglecting me and my whole life spiraling out of control.
 
I decided now was the perfect time to skip town. It’s the early 90’s, Kurt Cobain runs the grunge music scene and I just experienced some serious trauma. What’s a girl supposed to do? I didn’t want to end up like Kristen, so I grabbed my bucket list, turned up my mixtape of the greatest 90’s hits and fled L.A. The goal was to end up at Kurt Cobain’s house in Seattle, but I never could have guessed what would happen along the way.
 
At turns heartbreaking, inspiring, and laugh out loud funny, Runaway Train is a wild journey of a bygone era and a portrait of a one-of-a-kind teenage girl trying to find herself again the only way she knows how.

“This book is a love letter to grunge music,” the author Lee Matthew Goldberg said himself in the acknowledgement, and it’s so true. ​For us who are old enough to have experienced the 1990s ourselves this book was an amazing walk down memory lane. It was also such a poignant, heartbreaking and emotional book about a troubled teen dealing with her demons, about hitting rock bottom and finding herself along an epic road trip. Ultimately, it’s a book about healing, seeing the good in people and believing in yourself.

Read my full review here: Runaway Train by Lee Matthew Goldberg

About Lee Matthew Goldberg

Lee Matthew Goldberg is the author of the novels The Ancestor, The Mentor, The Desire Card and Slow Down. He has been published in multiple languages and nominated for the Prix du Polar. His first YA series Runaway Train is forthcoming in 2021 along with a sci-fi novel Orange City.

After graduating with an MFA from the New School, his writing has also appeared in The Millions, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, LitReactor, Monkeybicycle, Fiction Writers Review, Cagibi, Necessary Fiction, the anthology Dirty Boulevard, The Montreal Review, The Adirondack Review, The New Plains Review, Underwood Press and others. He is the editor-in-chief and co-founder of Fringe, dedicated to publishing fiction that’s outside-of-the-box. His pilots and screenplays have been finalists in Script Pipeline, Book Pipeline, Stage 32, We Screenplay, the New York Screenplay, Screencraft, and the Hollywood Screenplay contests. He is the co-curator of The Guerrilla Lit Reading Series and lives in New York City.

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Giveaway

Enter the Rafflecopter Giveaway for chance to win an ebook copy of this book!

About the tour

Find all tour dates and more here: Xpresso Book Tours Runaway Train