Sounds Like Titanic

A Memoir

Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman (Northern Kentucky University)

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English

WW Norton & Co
13 March 2020

String instruments; Autobiography: arts & entertainment; Memoirs; Gender studies: women

A young woman leaves Appalachia for a life as a classical musician in New York-or so she thinks.

When aspiring violinist Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman lands a job with a professional ensemble, she imagines she has achieved her lifelong dream. But the ensemble proves to be a sham. When the group performs, the microphones are never on. Instead, the music blares from a CD. The mastermind behind this scheme is a peculiar and mysterious figure known as The Composer, who is gaslighting his audiences with music that sounds suspiciously like the Titanic soundtrack. On tour with his chaotic ensemble, Hindman spirals into crises of identity and disillusionment as she plays for audiences genuinely moved by the performance, unable to differentiate real from fake.

With vulnerability, humor, and sharp insight into ambition and gender, Hindman tells a surreal coming-of-age story that perfectly articulates the anxieties and illusions of her generation. As Sounds Like Titanic swells to a crescendo, it gives voice to the failed promises of a nation that takes comfort in false realities.

By: Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman (Northern Kentucky University)
Imprint: WW Norton & Co
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 211mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 211g
ISBN: 9780393357738
ISBN 10: 0393357732
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 13 March 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman has “performed” on PBS, QVC, and at concert halls worldwide. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, McSweeney's, Brevity, and Hippocampus. She holds a BA in Middle Eastern studies and an MFA in creative nonfiction writing from Columbia University, and a PhD in English from the University of North Texas. She teaches creative writing at Northern Kentucky University and lives in Newport, Kentucky.

Reviews for Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir

Sardonic, moving. -- The New Yorker Brave and captivating. -- The Los Angeles Review of Books [An] outrageously funny, shrewdly meta memoir. -- O, The Oprah Magazine