Sounds Like Titanic : : a Memoir

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Call Number: 921 Hindman, Jessica, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Biography / General / Hindman, Jessica Chiccehitto
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Malletts Creek Branch, Pittsfield Branch

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	921 Hindman, Jessica	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Malletts Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Nonfiction / Biography / General / Hindman, Jessica Chiccehitto	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Pittsfield Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Nonfiction / Biography / General / Hindman, Jessica Chiccehitto	4-week checkout	On Shelf

When aspiring violinist Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman lands a job with a professional ensemble in New York City, 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 movie 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. Sounds Like Titanic is a surreal, often hilarious coming-of-age story. Hindman writes with precise, candid prose and sharp insight into ambition and gender, especially when it comes to the difficulties young women face in a world that views them as silly, shallow, and stupid. As the story swells to a crescendo, it gives voice to the anxieties and illusions of a generation of women, and reveals the failed promises of a nation that takes comfort in false realities.

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great memoir submitted by daiz125 on April 26, 2019, 8:39pm Very well written and hard to put down. Bizarre tell of her own experience and wanting more.
Interesting on false realities and her own journey.

A Distorted Life: Sounds Like Titanic submitted by ccrose on August 28, 2019, 11:36am An amazing story, quite true, of a young woman fresh out of college and looking for that first job. She details living and working in a fraudulent concert gig.

A Distorted Life: Sounds Like Titanic submitted by ccrose on August 28, 2019, 1:16pm An amazing story, quite true, of a young woman fresh out of college and looking for that first job. She details living and working in a fraudulent concert gig. It sounds wonderful on the front end. A violinist with dreams of playing in the finest orchestras, she signs on to a traveling group, an ensemble, “playing” while a taped concert is what the audience hears. What a scheme!
It’s that moment in her life when she meets head on, a creep “composer” who presents this to musicians as “making a living playing music.” The years she describes are those post 9/11 when our president convinces the nation that Iraq is out to get us and does the war thing.
I recommend this book for young adults, living that natural mindset of confusion covered up with more confusion about how life is supposed to go. Really I think anyone will find her experiences familiar: we all have been lied to sometime.
The life wears her down, being willing to do this for the income. Slowly, she spirals into a place of anxiety.