After ten-year-old Suzanne Delgado watched her parents’ marriage disintegrate, she leapt at a chance to go on tour with her father, who she adored; Gil Delgado, brimming with melody and charisma, was finally on the verge of breaking through, to becoming “somebody.”

But Gil and the Kills were a combustible bunch, and life on the road with a hard-driving band, while exhilarating, was ultimately no place for a little girl. The resulting conflagration essentially ended her relationship with her dad and left deep scars on Suzanne, even as she did her best to deny and suppress the wounds.

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“Hot Wax,” M.L. Rio’s first novel since her 2017 debut, “If We Were Villains,” shifts between that late-‘80s

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