That Summertime Sound, by Matthew Specktor.

The best book you are not reading because it's been widely ignored is Matthew Specktor's That Summertime Sound.  How does a book this intimate and honest and real get overlooked?  It's depressing to think about.
The book's about obsession and miscues and friendship.  Also loyalty and betrayal and all the things that disappoint you when you're 20.  It's about a young man who spends a summer in Columbus, Ohio to stalk his favorite band.

I stood by the window.  At four o'clock, the girls across...