Sounds Like Titanic
A Memoir
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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Publisher Description
A Finalist for the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography
"Deliciously bizarre and utterly American.…[A] Coen brothers movie come to life.…I couldn't put it down." —Caitlin Doughty, best-selling author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?
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.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
What would you do if you landed your dream job, but it turned out that the only thing you were allowed to do was lie? Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman’s wild memoir follows her brief and baffling career pretending to play classical music on tour with a total fraud who’s found success hawking CDs on infomercials. Hindman’s sense of humor cuts deep, and the flashbacks to her Appalachian childhood are stunning, nailing the small-town isolation that led her to New York and eventually this faux orchestra. Sounds Like Titanic is a spellbinding read that shows us how gunning for fame can lead straight to the gutter.
