In ‘Later Days,’ Chip Jacobs draws on Pasadena and La Cañada Flintridge’s past

In ‘Later Days,’ Chip Jacobs draws on Pasadena and La Cañada Flintridge’s past

Not a few novels set in Southern California feel local to natives and longtime residents. They try, and sometimes succeed, to capture the feeling of “L.A.” (“The Big Sleep,” “Play It as It Lays”). Other novels are what city editors used to call “local-local” stories – Naomi Hirahara’s “Summer of the Big Bachi” set in Altadena and other Japanese American neighborhoods of the Southland, Kem Nunn’s surf-noir “Huntington Beach.” But in his second no…