![]() Gould's portrait of a would-be artist as a young woman offers fresh, poignant insights into the challenges faced by the city's transplanted dreamers." - Publishers Weekly "Gould's strength lies in her powers of observation, her ability to wrap words around a specific time and a place in the lives of these particular women. ![]() I loved every page." -Emma Straub "Sharply observant. I gulped it down, as will all mothers, New Yorkers, music fans, and lovers of quick-moving novels that are both funny and deep. Now I want everyone I know to read this book and talk about it with me." -Elif Batuman " Perfect Tunes is a zippy and profound story of love, loss, heredity, and parenthood. Her take on mothers and daughters, and daughters' boyfriends, and daughters' boyfriends' mothers, and daughters' daughters boyfriends, is full of unspeakable insights, or at least I thought they were unspeakable, but there they are. I have yet to read any text longer than like one page by Emily Gould in which she doesn't articulate something I often thought, or felt, but never previously articulated or acknowledged. 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 mind-blowing. I loved every page." -Emma Straub, " Perfect Tunes is an intoxicating blend of music, love, and family from one of the essential writers of the internet generation. ![]() Funny, wise, and utterly immersive, Perfect Tunes explores the fault lines between parents and children, and asks whether dreams deferred can ever be reclaimed. But Marie won't let her, and when she attempts to track down Dylan's family, both mother and daughter are forced to confront the heartbreak at the root of their relationship. Laura has built a quiet life 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. Flash forward fourteen years: Laura's daughter, Marie, is asking ques-tions about the father she never knew, questions that Laura does not want to answer. ![]() Their time together is stormy and short-lived-Dylan dies a few months into their relationship-but will reverberate for the rest of Laura's life. A songwriter with a one-of-a-kind talent, she's just beginning to book gigs when she falls hard for Dylan, a troubled but magnetic musician whose star is on the rise. Now I want everyone I know to read this book and talk about it with me." -ELIF BATUMAN The breakout novel from Emily Gould: a story of music and motherhood, ambition and compromise-of life, in all its dissonance and harmony It's the early days of the new millennium, and Laura has arrived in New York City's East Village with the hopes of recording her first album. I loved every page." -EMMA STRAUB " Perfect Tunes is mind-blowing.Full of unspeakable insights, or at least I thought they were unspeakable, but there they are.
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