Virtual Event: Emily Gould

When:
Thursday, Apr 23, 2020 7:00p -
8:00p

Where:
Online event
1256 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, MA 02138

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Admission:
FREE

Categories:
Lectures & Conferences, Virtual & Streaming

Event website:
http://www.harvard.com/event/emily_gould/

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. She will be joined in conversation by local novelist MIRANDA POPKEY, author of Topics of Conversation.


About Perfect Tunes


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. 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. Their time together is stormy and short-lived—but will reverberate for the rest of Laura’s life.


Fifteen years later, Laura’s 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 she’s 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 Laura’s 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.


Emily Gould is the author of the novel Friendship and the essay collection And the Heart Says Whatever. With Ruth Curry, she runs Emily Books, which publishes books by women as an imprint of Coffee House Press. She rose to prominence at Gawker in its early years and has written for the New York Times, New York, The New Yorker, Bookforum, and many other publications.

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