{"product_id":"sounds-like-titanic-9780393651645","title":"Sounds Like Titanic","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA young woman leaves Appalachia for life as a classical musician—or so she thinks.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eSounds Like Titanic\u003c\/em\u003e would be unbelievable as a novel, but as a memoir it is deliciously bizarre and utterly American. It’s a Coen Brothers movie come to life—Ruby Tuesday, QVC, and one woman working for years as a fake violinist for classical music’s version of Thomas Kinkade. I couldn’t put it down.\" -- Caitlin Doughty, bestselling author of From Here to Eternity and Smoke Gets in Your Eyes\u003cbr\u003e\"Sardonic, moving.\" -- New Yorker\u003cbr\u003e\"[An] outrageously funny, shrewdly meta memoir.\" -- O, The Oprah Magazine\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] most original memoir, one in which the narrator’s intelligence deepens by the page…. I salute Jessica Hindman for having shaped so well a remarkable piece of experience.\" -- Vivian Gornick, author of The Odd Woman and the City: A Memoir\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eSounds Like Titanic\u003c\/em\u003e … is a memoir with bite. …[Hindman’s] fascinating personal story, with its unexpected twists, puts the memorable into this memoir.\" -- NPR\u003cbr\u003e\"Brave and captivating. \" -- Tucker Coombe - Los Angeles Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] rich, powerful book.\" -- Constance Grady - Vox\u003cbr\u003e\"It’s difficult to write a funny, angry book. It’s even harder to write a merciless, empathetic book. But here comes Jessica Hindman, doing the impossible with a funny, angry, merciless, empathetic book that’s not only a hugely entertaining memoir, but an insightful meditation on a time in our nation’s recent history whose strange and ominous influence grows more apparent by the day.\" -- Tom Bissell, author of Apostle and coauthor of The Disaster Artist\u003cbr\u003e\"Hindman is an emissary for a generation, repurposing its sarcasm and irony in a nuanced, humorous, and intelligent look at what it means to construct and consume fake realities in post-9\/11 America.\" -- Angela Palm, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize for Riverine\u003cbr\u003e\"It’s rare that a memoir—or any book—manages to be gripping, intelligent, witty, informative, and relatable all at the same time. Hindman mourns her lack of success as a professional musician, but we can all be endlessly happy she became a writer instead.\" -- Katherine Heiny, author of Standard Deviation\u003cbr\u003e\"An evocative portrait of America’s literal and figurative landscapes, an incisive look at class and gender, and an examination of what authenticity means.\" -- Justin St. Germain, author of Son of a Gun\u003cbr\u003e\"Although her violin days are over, Hindman can be assured that she’s accomplished something incredible: she has written a memoir about identity and finding a sense of self that is funny, personal, empathetic, and amazingly true.\" -- Lily McLemore - BookPage\u003cbr\u003e\"[P]rovocative. … A tricky, unnerving, consistently fascinating memoir.\" -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)","brand":"WW Norton \u0026 Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402011779415,"sku":"9780393651645","price":19.94,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sounds-like-titanic-9780393651645","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}