It’s a Friday night in a campus bar in Berkeley, fall of 2000, and Percy Marks is pontificating about music again. Hall and Oates is on the jukebox, and Percy—who has no talent for music, just lots of opinions about it—can’t stop herself from overanalyzing the song, indulging what she knows to be her most annoying habit. But something is different tonight. The guy beside her at the bar, fellow student Joe Morrow, is a songwriter. And he could listen to Percy talk all night.
Joe asks Percy for feedback on one of his songs—and the results kick off a partnership that will span years, ignite new passions in them both, and crush their egos again and again. Is their collaboration worth its cost? Or is it holding Percy back from finding her own voice?
Moving from Brooklyn bars to San Francisco dance floors, Deep Cuts examines the nature of talent, obsession, belonging, and above all, our need to be heard. penguinrandomhouse.com
I've read a lot of great books lately but Deep Cuts was truly one of the best books I've read in a long time. I devoured it in just two days and contemplated reading it again immediately after I turned the last page. I wanted to live in this book and be friends with Percy. Like Joe, I too could listen to her talk music all night. Deep Cuts isn't just a love story between two people, it's a love story to music itself. Every chapter is titled by the name of a popular song relevant to the chapter and I could hear all of these amazing songs in my head as I read along. I wish this book came with a mixtape. I also wish mixtapes were still at thing!
I purchased my copy of Deep Cuts at Barnes & Noble on that shopping spree I had a few weeks ago. You can pick up yours there or at your favorite bookstore or online shop. For more information, check out the publisher's website linked above.
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