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Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir

Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman

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Sounds Like Titanic was a finalist for the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography. Sounds Like Titanic tells the unforgettable story of how Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman became a fake violinist. Struggling to pay her college tuition, Hindman accepts a dream position in an award-winning ensemble that brings ready money. But the ensemble is a sham. When the group performs, the microphones are off while the music—which sounds suspiciously like the soundtrack to the movie Titanic—blares from a hidden CD player. Hindman, who toured with the ensemble and its peculiar Composer for four years, writes with unflinching candor and humor about her surreal and quietly devastating odyssey. Sounds Like Titanic is at once a singular coming-of-age memoir about the lengths to which one woman goes to make ends meet and an incisive articulation of modern anxieties about gender, class, and ambition.

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Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN-13
9780393651652
Topics
Music industry fraudComing of ageClass and economic struggle

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