Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir

“She is a tremendous storyteller. And she does something that is risky, which is write much of the book in the second person, implicating the reader in her experience and her struggle. Risky because that can come off as whiny, or as manipulating the reader. But I think that she has not just a remarkable story to tell—about being roped in to work with this PBS composer to pretend to play violin for hours at a stretch and spend time in this RV going across the country playing music that she utterly detests—but that she is able to unpack her experience and understand it as indicative of a wider cultural fakery that Americans, in particular, have allowed themselves to be susceptible to.” Read more...

The Best of Memoir: the 2020 NBCC Autobiography Shortlist

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