6/29/2023 0 Comments Could not connect perfecttunes![]() ![]() Life more or less returns to normal, though normal post-9/11 is relative, and Laura gets promoted to a server and she’s playing gigs around the city, writing songs, getting her groove. He’s never sober, he barely wants to sleep with Laura, and his mother hates her, so she and Callie head back home. Next 9/11 happens and the couples take a brief hiatus from the city to regroup but at this point, after so many tour stops, it’s obvious that Dylan isn’t well. ![]() Though barely listening at the time, he agrees to let her band open for his, but first she has to enlist Callie for the sex appeal and a drummer to back her guitar and just like that, Laura is back on track to pursuing her dream. Inspired by and jealous of Dylan’s band success and prodded by an old friend to get him to agree to an interview, Laura decides she has to use his connections to get herself a gig. No matter, at the very least she can try to get back to making music. They have great sex and spend all their free time at odd hours together but he’s about to start a drug-fueled tour and he’s not very good at being a boyfriend. ![]() Being friends with Callie is hard because of how everyone gravities towards her beauty and presence over Laura’s, but it is her love connection to a drummer in an up-and-coming band that Laura meets her next boyfriend, Dylan. Laura gets a gig as a hostess in a dark, swanky restaurant downtown and is soon making just enough money to pay for rent and not much else. She moves to New York with a push from her hometown friend, Callie, who has a “room” (New Yorkers will get this it’s technically a 2-bedroom, but not really) open up in her apartment. She wrote the best song in high school and expected to be a career musician. Laura is a singer and songwriter and she always has been. The small cast of main characters is balanced by the NYC setting which could have swallowed the story whole, but didn’t- it just feels right. This was my first time reading Gould I’m quite envious of her because she managed to write the book I wished to. Just go in knowing that this is a great mix of the musician’s life of Daisy Jones & the Six with the writing expertise of Ask Again, Yes or Everything I Never Told You which are two of my all-time favorite fiction books written for other writers. *DO NOT read the jacket summary!* I did but fortunately after I’d already read past the spoiler revealed that happens 100 or so pages in. ![]()
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