Deep Cuts

A Novel

De: Holly Brickley

Narrado por: 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.

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!

Slow Burn

No real resolution no evidence plot. I really don’t understand what the hype was about this.

A love story to early millennials

The book made my heart swell in all the ways. It made me miss being in college in the early 2000s…when figuring out who we were while it felt like the world was crumbling around us was a wild experience. I loved that Percy and Joe were so real and relatable. I just wish we could have had more of their story once finally taking the scary step toward “together” but I loved working through life with them to make it so that their timing was finally right.