’70s Music Journalism Gets An Overdue Rewrite In Debut Novel ‘Opal & Nev’

Dawnie Walton left her job as the deputy managing editor of Essence to write The Final Revival of Opal & Nev.

Dawnie Walton’s novel is a faux oral history about an interracial rock duo. Opal is a Black proto Afro-punk singer from Detroit, and Nev is a goofy white British singer-songwriter.

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Dawnie Walton’s novel is a faux oral history about an interracial rock duo. Opal is a Black proto Afro-punk singer from Detroit, and Nev is a goofy white British singer-songwriter.