Full name: Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir

Author: Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Memoirs, Non Fiction, Music, Contemporary Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780393357738 9780393651645 0393357732 0393651649

Hailed as "outrageously funny" (O, The Oprah Magazine) and "deeply moving" (Los Angeles Review of Books), Sounds Like Titanic tells the story of how Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman became a fake violinist. Raised in rural Appalachia and struggling to pay college tuition in the big city, Hindman joins her first a professional ensemble. But the job is a sham: when the group "performs," the microphones are off while music blares from a hidden CD. On tour with this unique ensemble and its mysterious composer, Hindman "plays" for audiences genuinely moved by the performance but unable to distinguish real from fake. At once a coming-of-age memoir and an incisive articulation of modern anxieties of gender, class, and ambition, Sounds Like Titanic is "angry, merciless, empathetic . . . [and] hugely entertaining" (Tom Bissell). "A memoir of millennial economic ennui, a clever illustration of navigating impostor syndrome and the gig economy." -- @nytimesbooks Similar books: Lips Unsealed by Belinda Carlisle Half a Life by Darin Strauss Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein Girl in the Dark by Anna Lyndsey Love Life by Rob Lowe No One Tells You This by Glynnis MacNicol Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot M Train by Patti Smith Life in a Day by Doris Grumbach Composed by Rosanne Cash The Stardust Lounge by Deborah Digges The Undertaker's Daughter by Kate Mayfield Between a Heart and a Rock Place by Pat Benatar Rat Girl by Kristin Hersh The Camera My Mother Gave Me by Susanna Kaysen The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls Life by Keith Richards Rod by Rod Stewart Beastie Boys Book by Michael Diamond It's So Easy by Duff McKagan