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Deep Cuts
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • TODAY SHOW SPRING PICK
“Tender as a ballad and pleasurable as a pop song, Deep Cuts is both a romp into the indie sleaze era of the early aughts and a timeless love story.”—Coco Mellors, New York Times bestselling author of Blue Sisters
“Deep Cuts will live alongside all the unforgettable music that Holly writes about so beautifully, with her whole heart.”—Cameron Crowe, Academy Award–winning writer/director of Almost Famous
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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Reviews
One of the many reasons I love this book is that it feels like no one else could have written it. While reading other compelling stories I’ve caught myself thinking I could write something like that, but I felt the exact opposite during this one. I have many favorite songs (some called out in this story) but before this book I didn’t have a clear view of how they might come to be or why they elicit an emotional pull, that’s both universal and personal. It’s delightful to hang out inside the mind of someone whose language I don’t speak at all. Thanks, Holly, for letting me in for a bit and for sharing these vivid characters and the alchemy behind their songs.
By ktinlo
Fun book and will be a fun movie, too.
By Boomer Mary