From the obsessive spark of first love to the complexities of mother-daughter relationships, Emily Gould captures life’s ups, downs, and in-betweens with wisdom and wry humor, giving us one of the great New York coming-of-age stories.” -Stephanie Danler “ Perfect Tunes is an intoxicating blend of music, love, and family from one of the essential writers of the internet generation. It is a delightful and poignant tale of music and motherhood, ambition and compromise-of life, in all its dissonance and harmony.
But neither her best friend, now a famous musician who relies on Laura’s songwriting skills, nor her depressed and searching daughter will let her give up on her dreams.įunny, wise, and tenderhearted, Perfect Tunes explores the fault lines in our most important relationships, and asks whether dreams deferred can ever be reclaimed. Laura has built a stable life in Brooklyn that bears little resemblance to the one she envisioned when she left Ohio all those years ago, and she’s taken pains to close the door on what was and what might have been. Their time together is stormy and short-lived-but will reverberate for the rest of Laura’s life.įifteen years later, Laura’s teenage daughter, Marie, is asking questions about her father, questions that Laura does not want to answer. A songwriter with a one-of-a-kind talent, she’s just beginning to book gigs with her beautiful best friend when she falls hard for a troubled but magnetic musician whose star is on the rise. It’s the early days of the new millennium, and Laura has arrived in New York City’s East Village in the hopes of recording her first album.
She will be joined in conversation by local novelist MIRANDA POPKEY, author of Topics of Conversation.
MIRANDA POPKEY EMILY GOULD SERIES
Harvard Book Store's virtual event series welcomes EMILY GOULD-author of the novel Friendship and co-founder of the celebrated Coffee House Press imprint, Emily Books-for a discussion of her latest book, Perfect Tunes: A Novel.
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