Deep Cuts

A Novel

By: Holly Brickley

Narrated by: Jayme Mattler

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

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM A24 • A BOOK RIOT BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

“Warm, nostalgic, totally engrossing. I loved this novel.”—Liz Moore, New York Times bestselling author of The God of the Woods

It was the love story of a decade. Or it should have been.

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 their instant chemistry kicks off a partnership that will span years, ignite new passions in them both, and crush their egos again and again. Will they ever take the leap beyond “just friends”? Or is their collaboration holding Percy back from finding her own voice?

As Percy and Joe circle each other from Brooklyn bars to San Francisco dance floors, Deep Cuts examines the nature of connection, obsession, belonging, and above all, our need to be heard by the people we love.

Every chapter is its own song on the album Percy was living

I love this book for the way it shows you that music touches every person in a different way. When you find someone that is touched the same way as you when they hear that lyric, you hold on to them. Fantastic.

A look back at

Deep Cuts was like going for a drive on a dark night and periodically being blinded by headlights in my rear view mirror reflecting on my own 20’s- 30’s. Some parts of the drive were pleasant, windows down on a cool night, but those glaring lights were tough being back in the unconfident skin of Percy. The narrator’s voices of the female characters was hard to listen to and each one sounded like the most annoying valley girl accent. I wish I read the book rather than listen to it.

Game of Cat and Mouse

I enjoy any book that kind bring music to life for each chapter. It was realistic in some aspects. I just felt that I was left with nothing but everything at the same time.

I wish I was able to pick apart Joe’s perspective a bit more.

Loved it

Enjoyed it very much! Definitely a new cult classic. I think this would make such a cute rom com. Also bonus points for the Spotify playlist to listen along.

Amazing for the music lover

Perfectly captures the music scene in early 2000s and on… made me so nostalgic about burned cds and then iPods.. also a REALISTIC romance and journey of friendships!