Valley of Search founder Nabil Ayers has announced his memoir, My Life in the Sunshine, to be published on June 7, 2022 via Viking/Penguin.

Ayers says about his memoir, “My Life in the Sunshine is about my struggle to connect with my father, Roy Ayers, whom I've never known. There are plenty of fun stories about growing up with my uncle, Alan Braufman, in New York City and Amherst in the seventies, being the only non-white person at a Tony Williams concert in Salt Lake City in the eighties, living in Seattle and touring in rock bands in the nineties, and my time in NYC running the record label, 4AD. But it’s mostly about the influence my father has had over me despite his absence, and the blurring of lines that define family and race.”

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