Deep Cuts
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Look, the song whispered to me, that day in my living room. Life can be so big.
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.
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HELL YES.
This is what I wanted Normal People to be. The genius of this book really snuck up on me and this novel turned out to be SO satisfying. I loved that I could feel the tone of the novel and voice of the narrator change/grow/evolve in time with the character (which should happen but sometimes doesn’t).
I loved that-despite not really liking any of the characters at first-I was rooting for all of them at the end. I also really loved that the author managed to take such a frustrating “romance” trope and somehow not make me feel frustrated. She didn’t lean into miscommunication or genuinely stupid characters to drive the issues between the main characters and that was very rewarding. The dynamics in this book all felt very realistic to me. And the timing of everything was so right and felt so natural. This is such a perfect coming of age (like frontal lobe development) novel for adults (coming from a 23 year old lol).
I loved this book. And what a perfect ending.
