NATIONAL BESTSELLER • ‘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
‘Warm, nostalgic, totally engrossing. I loved this novel.’—Liz Moore, New York Times bestselling author of The God of the Woods
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.
Genre: Literary Fiction
‘Warm, nostalgic, totally engrossing. I loved this novel.’—Liz Moore, New York Times bestselling author of The God of the Woods
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.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Praise for this book
"I absolutely loved Deep Cuts - clever and heart-wrenching and addictive, the kind of novel that grabs you in an instant and takes you reeling through its pages." - Miranda Cowley Heller
"Clever, nostalgic, and deeply geeky. Deep Cuts is a literary indie-pop classic - brilliantly constructed, with a raw, heartfelt energy that captures an era. There is such a range of music, I ended up listening to so many wonderful, forgotten tracks while reading this." - Florence Knapp
"I find it hard to remember the last time I found a novel so relatable and enjoyable. Prepare to fall in love with Percy and Joe this spring." - Gillian McAllister
"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
"Warm, nostalgic, totally engrossing. I loved this novel." - Liz Moore
"Deep Cuts is an incredibly special book, one of the best I've read in a very long time. Moving, beautiful, rich with emotion, it's an epic love story and the story of a woman finding her creative power, all rolled into one. Extraordinary." - Beth O'Leary
"Clever, nostalgic, and deeply geeky. Deep Cuts is a literary indie-pop classic - brilliantly constructed, with a raw, heartfelt energy that captures an era. There is such a range of music, I ended up listening to so many wonderful, forgotten tracks while reading this." - Florence Knapp
"I find it hard to remember the last time I found a novel so relatable and enjoyable. Prepare to fall in love with Percy and Joe this spring." - Gillian McAllister
"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
"Warm, nostalgic, totally engrossing. I loved this novel." - Liz Moore
"Deep Cuts is an incredibly special book, one of the best I've read in a very long time. Moving, beautiful, rich with emotion, it's an epic love story and the story of a woman finding her creative power, all rolled into one. Extraordinary." - Beth O'Leary
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