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Perfect Tunes (2020)

af Emily Gould

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"Its the early days of the new millennium, and Laura has arrived in New York Citys East Village in the hopes of recording her first album. A songwriter with a one of a kind talent, shes 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. Their time together is stormy and short lived, but will reverberate for the rest of Lauras life. Fifteen years later, Lauras teenage daughter, Marie, is asking questions about her father, questions that Laura does not want to answer. 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 shes taken pains to close the door on what was and what might have been. But neither her best friend, now a famous musician who relies on Lauras songwriting skills, nor her depressed and searching daughter will let her give up on her dreams. Funny, wise, and tenderhearted, Perfect Tunes explores the fault lines in our most important relationships, and asks whether dreams deferred can ever be reclaimed. It is a delightful and poignant tale of music and motherhood, ambition and compromise, of life, in all its dissonance and harmony"--… (mere)
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This book threw me for a loop in the best possible way. While it starts with a story about a young musician with lots of hope and dreams, tragedy hits. It takes on a raw and powerful look at motherhood and the sacrifices women make for their children. While I am not a huge music person, I connected with both these characters and the storyline and really enjoyed this one.

Thank you to NetGalley and Avid Reader Press for an advanced copy. ( )
  genthebookworm | Dec 19, 2020 |
Perfect Tunes is a book that combines two of my favourite things to read about – music and New York. Even better, the music is early 2000s rock – think The Strokes and Interpol. But the novel goes deeper than that, branching out into what happens when you’re not young and carefree any longer. It has a deep reflective tone and covers the realities of motherhood.

The story begins as Laura moves to New York with the aim of becoming a singer. To do that, she gets a job as a hostess but her time is mainly spent with her best friend Callie listening to music and going to parties. It’s at one of these parties that she meets Dylan, part of a band that is going places. Dylan is moody and drug addled, but to Laura, their relationship is passionate, culminating in fleeing the city after 9/11. Then Dylan leaves to go on tour and Laura’s world changes forever. From carefree days and long nights out, her world suddenly shrinks to one person and one apartment. Money is more than tight. But over time, Laura finds her way. It’s not necessarily the life she planned when she came to New York, but it’s a good one. Then Laura’s daughter starts asking questions about her father. Taking matters into her own hands, Marie decides to go looking for him with unexpected consequences.

Overall, Perfect Tunes has a dreamy feel. Laura’s first days in New York are seen through rose coloured glasses, soft focused and full of wonder. Later, the narrative takes on a dazed, nightmarish feel as the characters experience 9/11 and Laura learns the harsh realities of being a broke single mother. As Laura grows older, her perspective takes on more clarity and that sense of loss is transferred to Marie. Marie takes over most of the latter part of the book in looking for her father, partly due to curiosity and partly to impress a boy. The shift in perspective didn’t always work for me, as I cared more about Laura’s trajectory rather than a teenager. (And to have Laura set aside after being the main focus, as had happened with her music and her career – well, it just didn’t seem fair). I couldn’t connect with Marie, maybe because she had been a baby or toddler for a large chunk of the book and she chopped and changed her plans and aims so much. (To be fair, Laura in her youth could be just as indecisive but I tended to put that down to naivety). As for the other characters, I didn’t know whether to love or hate Callie. She lived Laura’s dream, but she tried multiple times to bring Laura into that world too. Dylan was kind of mystical with his rock star vibe, but his personality was shrouded behind drugs most of the time. Matt and Kayla were down to earth, funny and possibly the most sharply drawn, concrete characters – a good contrast to dreamy Laura and Marie.

Written beautifully, this dreamy, meandering novel through love, dreams and family will draw the reader in. You may not love all the characters, but you will certainly want to keep reading.

Thank you to Simon & Schuster for the copy of this book. My review is honest.

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  birdsam0610 | Oct 2, 2020 |
In fiction as in life, the youthful beginnings portrayed in the first three chapters of this amazing novel is the best part - fresh, honest, rife with deep emotion and silly mistakes. Laura is a singer-songwriter who moves to NYC before 9/11 and is fully engaged with her E. Village neighborhood and her boyfriend Dylan, an unstable punk rocker. She and her best friend Callie join his band, The Clips, but all the optimism and ambition is bludgeoned by his tragic accidental death. So ends the dream. A year later, Laura is a struggling poor single mom, her daughter Marie the only remnant of her obsession with Dylan, as Callie has moved on to great success with what should have been Laura's band. The story continues with Laura's marriage to sympathetic single dad Matt, but she and the reader become truly disenchanted as Laura's talent remains subsumed to everyday life and to Marie's depression and teenage rebellion. There's a glimmer of hope at the end, but the glory of her Laura's early rise and her relentlessly bland afterlife shows the toll of the path not taken. Beautifully written and moving.

Quotes: "Callie asked where she'd heard the song and didn't believe Laura when she said she'd written it, because it was the kind of song that sounded like it has always existed."

"She awoke with a disgusting hangover that made her head feel like a black banana."

"There had been something animal and beyond logic about how she'd known, the first time they made eye contact, that she needed to fuck him. She would have run miles, committed crimes. The best pop songs were about that feeling, and the very best of them contained a word or a phrase or a tune that made people who heard them feel it, too, in a homeopathic-level distillation that wouldn't destroy their lives in the way that experiencing that feeling for real would." ( )
  froxgirl | Aug 4, 2020 |
Eh. I don't really understand why this book exists, why is this a story I should want to read? It is competently written (perhaps better than competent), in a heavily workshopped way but I can't think who would care about the story told. The whole is so navel gazey and mundane. It is so Brooklyn! Now, I love Brooklyn, heart and soul. I spent much of my 20's living there, first in Boerum Hill (when it was still dangerous - before it was home to so many literary stars) feet away from the entrance to the Gowanus projects (RIP) and then in the upper reaches of Park Slope. I still spend a lot of time there. I am a card carrying member of the Brooklyn Museum and BAM, and I love a good Emily burger. But. Brooklyn has an obsession with "authenticity" that is absurd. Word to the wise, if you think about whether you are being authentic, you are not being authentic. Also, authenticity often sucks. Trump is his authentic self every day, and I would be thrilled if he pretended to be a decent human being with a dash of intellect and a soupcon of public policy expertise. Some of the worst Indian food I have ever had was on the street in Kolkata. Authentic yes, and featuring the meat of (well seasoned) scrawny, tough, fly covered chickens. Anyway, my point is there is an earnest authenticity here that I would like to trade in for some style, some flavor, some generosity, some point.. All of the characters are authentic, and all are just boring. Everything that happens to them is authentic, and still boring. So if the goal was to write an authentic story, well done. If the point was to write a compelling worthwhile story, this did not work. ( )
  Narshkite | Jul 24, 2020 |
Perfect Tunes is a book about choices told in three parts--each one a snapshot of Laura’s life at a pivotal period right before she must decide which way she will go. We first meet wannabe musician, Laura, at 22, fresh to New York City from a sheltered, mid-west life; then a few years later as a harried single mother; and lastly at a breaking point with her teenage daughter. Author Emily Gould captures specific circumstances and places incredibly well: grimey, twenty-something apartments, and parties, the stress of early motherhood, the bleakness of depression. Readers who connect with these moments--namely mothers and musicians--will enjoy Perfect Tunes and its story of losing oneself...or finding oneself in motherhood. Definitely a crossover for mature YA readers, too. ( )
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"Its the early days of the new millennium, and Laura has arrived in New York Citys East Village in the hopes of recording her first album. A songwriter with a one of a kind talent, shes 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. Their time together is stormy and short lived, but will reverberate for the rest of Lauras life. Fifteen years later, Lauras teenage daughter, Marie, is asking questions about her father, questions that Laura does not want to answer. 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 shes taken pains to close the door on what was and what might have been. But neither her best friend, now a famous musician who relies on Lauras songwriting skills, nor her depressed and searching daughter will let her give up on her dreams. Funny, wise, and tenderhearted, Perfect Tunes explores the fault lines in our most important relationships, and asks whether dreams deferred can ever be reclaimed. It is a delightful and poignant tale of music and motherhood, ambition and compromise, of life, in all its dissonance and harmony"--

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