Abstract

"Los Angeles Man" is the story of Martin Dietrich, a music journalist who refuses to write the only story anyone wants from him: a memoir about his father, an infamous music-producer. When Martin has a compulsive tryst with his wife's erratic twin Laurel, she becomes pregnant and they're exiled from the Hollywood Hills to the outskirts of LA County. In order to support their imminent child, Martin finally agrees to write the memoir. By confronting the legacy of his father's failures and his own disastrous choices, he finds that his own path to redemption may not include forgiveness. Between the blighted immigrant neighborhood where he's landed and his old life, Martin must somehow find the elusive secrets to fidelity, fatherhood, and love.