Songs for Brando

When Jake loses his best friend Brando, life stops making sense. They'd known each other since they were kids two brothers who laughed, drank, and dreamed about singing on stage together one day. But when Brando dies suddenly at thirty-five, Jake is left with a silence so deep it drowns out everything else. With only his guitar and grief for company, Jake sets out across small-town New Zealand, singing the songs they once loved Charley Pride, Tom Jones, and all the old classics that still sound like truth.
He doesn't sing for fame or money. He sings to stay alive. As his journey unfolds, Jake meets strangers who find their own reflection in his music and one day, a man from Nashville who hears something the world needs to hear. What follows is a quiet, extraordinary story of love, loss, and the healing power of song. Songs for Brando is a deeply human novel about friendship, grief, and the music that keeps us connected even after goodbye.
Moving, cinematic, and filled with soul, it's a story for anyone who's ever lost someone and wondered how to keep living without them.