Friendship, grief and music shape Jeff Zentner’s YA stories about teenagers in the American South. The Serpent King follows three friends in rural Tennessee, including the son of a disgraced preacher, as graduation forces them towards different futures. Goodbye Days centres on a boy who survives the car accident that kills his three best friends and then spends time with their families confronting guilt and memory. In the Wild Light follows two friends leaving their Appalachian town for an elite school, while Rayne & Delilah’s Midnite Matinee uses a local television horror show as the backdrop for friendship and change. Zentner’s prose is emotionally direct and character-led, fitting contemporary YA, Southern coming-of-age and grief fiction. Read more Less
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