Afterglow

Afterglow is a story about how Frank Columbo, a nineteen-year-old apprentice sheetrock hanger from Hoboken, New Jersey, became, briefly and incandescently, the global pop-music superstar Frankie Valentine, and then became Frank Columbo again. It is a story about how, when early fame flames out, you must discover how to live the rest of your life. It is also a story about a sixteen-year-old girl named Katie Anderson, who became collateral damage to Frankie's fame, and then had to find a life for herself, too, and did. And, finally, it is a love story, although it might not at first seem so.